Genetics and disease prevention: Complementary or Contradictory?

Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 507-516

  Seibert, Diane C ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease prevention; Epigenetics; Family history; Genetics; Health promotion; Human genome; Metagenomics; Pharmacogenomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954261211     PISSN: 15554155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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