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Mainstreaming sex and gender analysis in public health genomics.
Gender medicine - 1 Dec 2012
Verdonk Petra, Klinge Ineke
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BACKGROUND: The integration of genome-based knowledge into public health or public health genomics (PHG) aims to contribute to disease prevention, health promotion, and risk reduction associated with genetic disease susceptibility. Men and women differ, for instance, in susceptibilities for heart disease, obesity, or depression due to biologic (sex) and sociocultural (gender) factors and their interaction....
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