Studying The Role Of Gene-Environmental Interactions In Human Disease

Identifying biomarkers for the key environmental risk factors responsible for two diseases that significantly contribute to death and disease of hundreds of thousands annually will be the initial focus of a new center being established at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. PNNL will house the Center for Novel Biomarkers of Response, made possible by a $5.9 million grant recently awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s Gene and Environment Initiative. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Genetics on October 5th, 2007