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Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Genetic Epidemiology : How to Define Our Scope? †
Author(s) -
Ziegler Andreas,
König Inke R.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
genetic epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.301
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1098-2272
pISSN - 0741-0395
DOI - 10.1002/gepi.21816
Subject(s) - genetic epidemiology , scope (computer science) , epidemiology , genetic data , genealogy , biology , demography , history , medicine , sociology , computer science , population , programming language
We review the scope of the scientific discipline genetic epidemiology by considering the steps of genetic epidemiologic research. Starting from the classical definition of genetic epidemiology as provided by Morton and Chung [1978, ISBN ‐ 13: 9780125080507], we propose a slightly modernized definition of the term genetic epidemiology.