American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 20, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(2):234-235; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn349
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Murcray et al. Respond to the Invited Commentaries
Correspondence to Cassandra E. Murcray, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 222F, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9010 (e-mail: murcray@usc.edu).
Received for publication September 25, 2008. Accepted for publication September 30, 2008.
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We thank Chatterjee and Wacholder (1) and Khoury and Wacholder (2) for their insightful comments related to our paper in this issue of the Journal (3). Khoury and Wacholder underscore a key motivating factor in our work, specifically that genome-wide association studies have the potential to discover genes that interact with environmental factors. They raise several important issues that must be considered when integrating environmental factors
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