[Genetics and epidemiology: possibilities of a common program from the perspective of the history of biology].

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The current convergence of molecular genetics and epidemiology on the analysis of chronic diseases have prompted the comparison of the roles of genetics and epidemiology with those maintained at the end of XIX century by the, then, emergent bacteriology and miasmatic theories of infectious diseases. In some cases, the analogy have been extended to the causal role of germ and mutation on infectious and chronic...

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