Genetic Effects on Environmental Vulnerability to Disease
While much research has attempted to show direct linear relations between genes and disorder, scientists have been discouraged by inconsistent findings based on this simple gene-phenotype approach. An alternative approach is to incorporate information about the environment. The gene-environment interaction approach focuses on the circumstances in which there is an environmental determinant of disease but where genes influence susceptibility to that environmental factor. Genetic Effects on Environmental Vulnerability to Disease is based on the final meeting of the Novartis Foundation Symposium Series (#293 Understanding How Gene Environment In…
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- ISBN: 978-0-470-69679-8
- EAN: 9780470696798
- Produktnummer: 13809191
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'919 KB
Über den Autor
Prof Sir Michael Rutter, King's College, London, UKProf Rutter is the leading child psychiatrist in the UK. He set up the MRC Child Psychiatry Research Unit and the Institute of Psychiatry's Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. He was Deputy Chairman of the Wellcome Trust from 1999 to 2004, and has been a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation since 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and an honorary member of the British Academy in 2002.?He was a Founding Fellow of the Academia Europaea and the Academy of Medical Sciences, of which he is currently Clinical Vice-President.He has published extensively.
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