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International Journal of Epidemiology 2004 33(5):923-924; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh336
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IJE vol.33 no.5 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

Editor's Choice

Genetic epidemiology: an ‘enlightened narrative’?

George Davey Smith, Editor

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Genetic epidemiology—the theme of this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology—has been viewed as almost the antithesis of behavioural, environmental, or social epidemiology. This line of reasoning sees genetic epidemiology as primarily investigating nonmodifiable biological factors, which must lead to a purely biological notion of disease causation, prevention, and treatment.1 This critique can be expanded to cover two features of findings from genetic association studies: that the population-attributable risk of the genetic variants is low and that in any case the influence of genetic factors is . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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