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Xenogenetics in multifactorial disease susceptibility.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Dec 1995
Sim E, Stanley L A, Risch A, Thygesen P
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to multifactorial disease includes both genetic and environmental components. These two aspects of susceptibility are interlinked through genetic control of an individual's response to the environment. As a first step in identifying disease susceptibility genes that influence the response of an individual to foreign compounds (xenobiotics), it is necessary to study disorders in which there is an...
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