Combining environmental exposure and genetic effect measurements in health outcome assessment

• Published in: Mutation research Vol. 428; no. 1-2; p. 177
• Main Author: Bonassi, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 16.07.1999
• Subjects: Chromosome Aberrations; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Environmental Monitoring - statistics & numerical data; Epidemiological Monitoring; Genetic Markers; Humans; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - etiology; Neoplasms - genetics; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Risk Factors

The presence of overwhelming difficulties in assessing the extent or even the presence of a causal association between modern environmental exposures and disease has promoted the use of more complex models in the design of human biomonitoring studies. The concatenation of environmental exposure, gen...