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Integrating epidemiology and genetic association: the challenge of gene-environment interaction.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Aug 2005
Kraft Peter, Hunter David
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Recent advances in human genomics have made it possible to better understand the genetic basis of disease. In addition, genetic association studies can also elucidate the mechanisms by which "non-genetic" exogenous and endogenous exposures influence the risk of disease. This is true both of studies that assess the marginal effect of a single gene and studies that look at the joint effect of genes and...
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