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Neo-Lamarckian medicine.
Medical hypotheses - 1 Jan 2004
Gorelick Root
Abstract excerpt
Darwinian medicine is the treatment of disease based on evolution. The underlying assumption of Darwinian medicine is that traits are coded by genes, which are often assumed to be sequences of DNA nucleotides. The quantitative genetic ramification of this perspective is that traits, including disease susceptibility, are either caused by genes or by the environment, with genotype-by-environment interactions...
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