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Putting the Genome in Context: Gene-Environment Interactions in Type 2 Diabetes.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Jul 2016
Franks Paul W, Paré Guillaume
Abstract excerpt
The genome is often the conduit through which environmental exposures convey their effects on health and disease. Whilst not all diseases act by directly perturbing the genome, the phenotypic responses are often genetically determined. Hence, whilst diseases are often defined has having differing degrees of genetic determination, genetic and environmental factors are, with few exceptions, inseparable features of...
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