Genetic factors are not the major causes of chronic diseases

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Rappaport, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; THYROID DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEART DISEASES; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SMOKING; SODIUM INTAKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

SODIUM INTAKE;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART DISEASES; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SMOKING; SODIUM, DIETARY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84977644984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154387     Document Type: Article

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