A self-fulfilling prophecy: are we underestimating the role of the environment in gene-environment interaction research?
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- 27 May 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 33 (5) , 945-946
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyh277
Abstract
Serious mistakes have been made in the past by underestimating the effects of environment and overestimating the effects of genes.1 –3 A first seminal 1972 paper by Lewontin1 drew the attention of researchers on the mistakes of partitioning nature and nurture. More recently, Kittles and Weiss, considering the definition of ‘race’, showed the lack of an obvious correspondence between genotypes and phenotypes.3Keywords
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