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Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI)
Description
The Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI) is a National Institutes of Health
initiative announced by Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt in 2006. It
was initiated by the President's 2007 budget proposal to determine the genetic and
environmental roots of common diseases.
The GEI will have two main components:
- The Genetics Program is a pipeline for analyzing genetic variation in groups of
patients with specific illnesses.
- The Exposure Biology Program is an environmental technology development program to
produce and validate new methods for monitoring environmental exposures that interact with
a genetic variation to result in human diseases.
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