Category: environment

Shall We Have Pie or Stew?

a pie cut in almost half with the smaller piece labeled Environmental and the larger piece labeled Genetic

Understanding Genetic and Environmental Causes of Human Disease A recent article in the Archives of General Psychiatry by Hallmayer et al. discussed the role of genetic and environmental factors in autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The study was a heritability analysis of 192 pairs of twins, which attributed 37 percent of the variation in Read More >

August 11, 2011 by Scott Bowen, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers For Disease Control and Prevention15 Comments

genomics

disease, environment, genetics, genomics