Gene-environment interaction: Definitions and study designs

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 764-770

  Ottman, Ruth ^a  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; human genetics; interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030296970     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1996.0117     Document Type: Article

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