Will investments in large-scale prospective cohorts and biobanks limit our ability to discover weaker, less common genetic and environmental contributors to complex diseases?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-122

  Foster, Morris W ^a   Sharp, Richard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biobanks; Communities; Complex disease; Gene environment interaction; Prospective cohorts; Qualitative methods; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE INTERACTION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHENOTYPE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 14744275717     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7343     Document Type: Article

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