Review: Genetic epidemiological approaches in the study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 19 (3) , 209-217
- https://doi.org/10.1023/b:ejep.0000020399.19615.6c
Abstract
The importance of genetic factors for the susceptibility to disease has been widely recognized in the last years. Genes have been identified for monogenic diseases and the challenge lying ahead is...Keywords
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