The beginning of the end for the epidemiologic focus on gene-environment interactions?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1059-1060

  Sellers, Thomas A ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS;

EID: 33745698103     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0366     Document Type: Editorial

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