Genetics: Genome-wide risk profiles-will they change your life(style)?

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 252-254

  Loos, Ruth J F ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIET; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; LIFE STYLE;

EID: 79955106144     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.41     Document Type: Article

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