Health disparities in common, complex diseases a role for genetics?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Kathleen C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Henry Stewart Talks 2007, 2007
Series:Evolution and medicine : how new applications advance research and practice
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Collection: Henry Stewart Talks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Genetic epidemiology of common, complex and chronic diseases
  • Evidence of a role for a genetic basis of health disparities
  • Genetic studies on asthma and allergic disease and ethnicity
  • Geneenvironment interactions
  • Biogeography and the hygiene hypothesis
  • Innate vs. adaptive immunity and the common variant/multiple disease hypothesis
  • Antagonistic pleiotropy