The virtues of a deliberately mis-specified disease model in demonstrating a gene-environment interaction

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 374-380

  Burstyn, Igor ^a,c   Kim, H M ^a,b   Yasui, Y ^a   Cherry, N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c 13 103E Clinical Sciences Building ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP FARMING;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67649130539     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.039081     Document Type: Article

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