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Informing Prevention and Intervention Policy Using Genetic Studies of Resistance.
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research - 1 Jan 2018
Maher Brion S, Latendresse Shawn, Vanyukov Michael M
Abstract excerpt
The common paradigm for conceptualizing the influence of genetic and environmental factors on a particular disease relies on the concept of risk. Consequently, the bulk of etiologic, including genetic, work focuses on "risk" factors. These factors are aggregated at the high end of the distribution of liability to disease, the latent variable underlying the distribution of probability and severity of a disorder....
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