Computers analyze environmental factors in diabetes

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 16:01 in Biology & Nature

Like many complex diseases, diabetes results from the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. To examine genetic risk factors, scientists pore over the human genome sequence. Environmental factors have been trickier to pin down because there is no way to evaluate them comprehensively.

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