Conceptual shifts needed to understand the dynamic interactions of genes, environment, epigenetics, social processes, and behavioral choices

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Jackson, Fatimah L C ^a   Niculescu, Mihai D ^a   Jackson, Robert T ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENOMICS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84884128145     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301221     Document Type: Review

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