Although the «multiple - hit» hypothesis has been prominent in the literature for some time, it is difficult to test the idea with
human epidemiology studies, he says.
Human epidemiology studies in populations in different geographic locations, as well as clinical and molecular studies, show that Merkel cell polyomavirus causes Merkel cell carcinoma.
Not exact matches
I continued working at the interface of science and
epidemiology, first with Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, a New Haven - based pharmacogenomics company, where I was involved in the fascinating
study of
human genetic variation and population genetics.
Oral
human papillomavirus (HPV) infections were more common among men who had female partners with oral and / or genital HPV infection, suggesting that the transmission of HPV occurs via oral - oral and oral - genital routes, according to a McGill University
study published in Cancer
Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
He is a founding member of the Ape Research Consortium, which brings together experts
studying human and nonhuman ape
epidemiology, genetics, neurobiology, cognition, behavior and conservation.
protected animals»);
studies on in vitro systems (whole perfused organs, tissue slices, cell and tissue cultures, and subcellular fractions); and
human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, postmarketing surveillance,
epidemiology, and the ethical and strictly controlled use of
human volunteers).
«This program reaches an extremely vulnerable population at an extremely vulnerable time with the best treatment available for opioid use disorder,» said
study co-author Dr. Josiah «Jody» Rich, professor of medicine and
epidemiology at Brown University and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and
Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.
«Our
studies are beginning to corroborate the idea that environmental estrogen may be associated with endometriosis,» said Germaine Buck - Louis, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development's
epidemiology division in Maryland.
Vittoria Colizza, who organized the ESOF session and is head of computational
epidemiology at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy, says that using cell phones, RFID tags, and dollars bills represent a «new wave of research» in
human mobility
studies.
Much of her current research involves
human exposure science and reproductive
epidemiology studies of endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as flame retardants, phthalates, BPA, and others.
* Quantification of
Human Microbiome Stability over Six Months: Implications for Epidemiologic
Studies — Rashmi Sinha — American Journal of
Epidemiology
Genetic
epidemiology is a discipline takes care of
studying the role of genetic factors and their interaction with environmental factors in the aetiology of
human disease.
Genetic
epidemiology combines the genetic method with the epidemiological method to
study genetic variation in
human populations and their relation with normal and pathological phenotypical changes.
This program has resulted in the discovery of unique variants in environmentally responsive genes, the development of a number of resources, and capacity building in the environmental
epidemiology communities in order to incorporate gene - environment hypotheses and tools into
human population - based
studies on a number of environmentally relevant diseases.
But for the majority of us who don't work with chemicals, diet is the biggest source of exposure, says Jorge Chavarro, MD, assistant professor of nutrition and
epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and senior author of a new
study published in the journal
Human Reproduction.
«I was surprised that even people who would be considered normal weight in terms of their [body mass index] have a higher risk of death if their waist circumference is increased,» says Tobias Pischon, MD, the
study's lead author and a member of the department of
epidemiology at the German Institute of
Human Nutrition (DIfE).
The
study, appearing in the journal Canine Genetics and
Epidemiology, reached the stark conclusion that health issues created by
human manipulation of the breed could lead to its doom.
Epidemiology studies that connect
human disease and mortality to industrial factors are sure to grab even more attention.