Invited Commentary: Genetic Variants and Individual- and Societal-Level Risk Factors
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Invited commentary: genetic variants and individual- and societal-level risk factors.
Over the past decade, leading epidemiologists have noted the importance of social factors in studying and understanding the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations; but to what extent are epidemiologic studies integrating genetic information and other biologic variables with information about individual-level risk factors and group-level or societal factors related to the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp379