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The "etiome": identification and clustering of human disease etiological factors.
BMC bioinformatics - 5 Feb 2009
Liu Yueyi I, Wise Paul H, Butte Atul J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to human diseases. Most common diseases are influenced by a large number of genetic and environmental factors, most of which individually have only a modest effect on the disease. Though genetic contributions are relatively well characterized for some monogenetic diseases, there has been no effort at curating the extensive list of environmental...
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