Misreading Dr. Venter's Genome

Many cases of gene-environment interaction, or $\mathrm{G}\,\times \mathrm{E}\,$, are misconstrued as evincing a genetic predisposition. I diagnose this misconstrual and then introduce a new concept—interactive predisposition—to correct for the mistake. I conclude by examining how recent debates over screening for individual predispositions are related to older debates about group differences between populations, drawing on the lessons of the latter to inform the former.

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Misreading Dr. Venter's Genome

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Somatic genome variations interact with environment, genome and epigenome in the determination of the phenotype: A paradigm shift in genomics?

Somatic genome variations interact with environment, genome and epigenome in the determination of the phenotype: A paradigm shift in genomics?

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