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The gene-environment enigma
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Personalized medicine centers on being able to predict the risk of disease or response to a drug based on a person's genetic makeup. But a new study suggests that, for most common diseases, genes alone only tell part of the story. Their research shows the environment interacts with DNA in ways that are difficult to predict, even in simple organisms like single-celled yeast.
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