Evaluation of environmental and personal susceptibility characteristics that modify genetic risks

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 471, Issue , 2009, Pages 163-177

  Shen, Jing ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Classification and regression tree; Environmental factors; Epigenetics; Genetic risk; High penetrance genes; Personal susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR;

ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 60349120016     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-416-2_8     Document Type: Article

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