Sentences with phrase «genetic epidemiologist»

«It could be that as your brain is maturing, you become less susceptible to the addictive effects of nicotine because the genetic component that is influencing the way nicotine interacts with these receptors may have less effect,» says Chris Amos, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who wasn't involved in the study.

Genetic epidemiologist Marilyn Cornelis of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston knows about coffee addicts first hand — she's got one in the family.

But they were using the wrong analytic techniques, says genetic epidemiologist Neil Risch of Stanford University.

The twin consortium will combine half a dozen twin registries across Europe to create a database of more than 800,000 twins, including more than 250,000 sets of fraternal and identical twins, says genetic epidemiologist Nancy Pedersen of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who is participating in the project.

If this is shown to work in bigger, randomised trials, it would be fantastic, says Ana Valdes, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Not exact matches

Shifting predictions could undermine people's faith in the value of personal genetic information, warns Cecile Janssens, an epidemiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who led the analysis.

That might cover studies on whether there are genetic changes that would allow Ebola to be transmitted through airborne particles, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, something that is crucial for public health officials to know, he said, but which should not be made public.

Genetic sequencing of samples from patients and from health care workers allowed epidemiologists to track the outbreak to a single patient and to trace its spread.