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Genomics and Disease Prevention

Internet URL

http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/population.htm  

Sponsoring Agency

National Office of Public Health Genomics- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Description

The basic science of public health genomics is "human genome epidemiology," the set of methods for collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing data on the distribution of gene variants, gene-disease associations, and gene-environment and gene-gene interactions.

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Review Date

3/22/2007