Complementing the genome with an "exposome": The outstanding challenge of environmental exposure measurement in molecular epidemiology

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1847-1850

  Wild, Christopher Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA ADDUCT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXPOSOME; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ADDUCT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS;

EID: 23844523425     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-05-0456     Document Type: Editorial

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