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Want to know your disease risk? Check your exposome [1]

When it comes to health, which is more important, nature or nurture? You may well think your genes are a more important predictor of health and ill health. Not so fast. In fact, it transpires that our everyday environment outweighs our genetics, big time, when it comes to measuring our risk of disease. The genome is out - welcome the exposome.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2011
Jessica Hamzelou [2]
New Scientist [3]
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2792-2793
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Tags:
Diseases [4], Lifestyles [5], Health Effects [6], Environmental Health [7]
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/lifestyles
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environmental-health