Network medicine - From obesity to the "Diseasome"

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 404-407

  Barabási, Albert László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BODY FAT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FTO GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 34547146985     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe078114     Document Type: Editorial

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