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Gene-environment interactions in human disease: nuisance or opportunity?
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Mar 2011
Ober Carole, Vercelli Donata
Abstract excerpt
Many environmental risk factors for common, complex human diseases have been revealed by epidemiologic studies, but how genotypes at specific loci modulate individual responses to environmental risk factors is largely unknown. Gene-environment interactions will be missed in genome-wide association studies and could account for some of the 'missing heritability' for these diseases. In this review, we focus on...
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