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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 24, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(8):815; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi282
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "DO WE NEED GENOMIC RESEARCH FOR THE PREVENTION OF COMMON DISEASES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES?"

Alfredo Morabia and Michael C. Costanza

Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Geneva University Hospitals, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland

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Khoury et al. (1Go) nicely reviewed some of the reasons why studying the genetic component of complex disease etiology might be useful. We agree in principle that epidemiologic research should continue to investigate both the genetic and nongenetic determinants of common disorders. However, we do not believe that the arguments of Khoury et al. invalidate Merikangas and Risch's (2Go) . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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