In this editorial, I highlight the role of epidemiology as a discipline that provides population-based information on the relationship between human genetic variation and various human diseases. I also invite authors to submit the results of epidemiologic investigations to Genetics in Medicine and thus to contribute to translating advances in human genetics research into medical and public heal...

a Department of Biostatistics, Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA b Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia c Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA d Department of Epidemiology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA e Department of Bioinformatics and Compu...

1 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 2 Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA 3 Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 4 Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA , USA 5 Division of Infectious Diseases, Depart...

Dept.Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Dept. Epidemiology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Institute of Cytology and Genetics SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. Dept. of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Dept. Clinical Chemistry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Dept. Internal Medicine, Leid...

Division of Cancer of Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20852 [B-T. J., W.-H. C., J. F. F.]; Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Health Service Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232 [G. Y.]; and Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China [F. J., ...

1 Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX. 2 Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS. 3 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC. 4 Department of Epidemiology, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 5 Department of Medicine, Baylor College ...

aEpidemiology and Biostatistics Program, Division of Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland; bDepartment of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and cGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Hood Center for Children and Families, Lebanon, Ne...

Magee-Womens Research Institute, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Haartman Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsbur...

Department of Oncology, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Cancer Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Correspondence T. Waldman, e-mail: waldmant@george...

National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Human Genetics Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Sc...