Commentary: thoughts on assessing evidence for gene by environment interaction

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Clarice R Weinberg. Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Jun.

. 2012 Jun;41(3):705-7.

doi: 10.1093/ije/dys048. Epub 2012 May 16.

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Recommendations and proposed guidelines for assessing the cumulative evidence on joint effects of genes and environments on cancer occurrence in humans.
Boffetta P, Winn DM, Ioannidis JP, Thomas DC, Little J, Smith GD, Cogliano VJ, Hecht SS, Seminara D, Vineis P, Khoury MJ. Boffetta P, et al. Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Jun;41(3):686-704. doi: 10.1093/ije/dys010. Epub 2012 May 16. Int J Epidemiol. 2012. PMID: 22596931 Free PMC article.

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