Advancing the next generation of health risk assessment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1499-1502

  Cote, Ila ^a   Anastas, Paul T ^b   Birnbaum, Linda S ^c   Clark, Rebecca M ^a   Dix, David J ^a   Edwards, Stephen W ^a   Preuss, Peter W ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

'omics' risk assessment; Bioinformatics; Molecular biology; NexGen; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE RESPONSE; EXPOSURE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEXT GENERATION OF RISK ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 84868536931     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104870     Document Type: Article

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