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SUBMITTER: Balik-Meisner M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6084885 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Balik-Meisner Michele M Truong Lisa L Scholl Elizabeth H EH La Du Jane K JK Tanguay Robert L RL Reif David M DM
Environmental health perspectives 20180628 6
<h4>Background</h4>Modern societies are exposed to vast numbers of potentially hazardous chemicals. Despite demonstrated linkages between chemical exposure and severe health effects, there are limited, often conflicting, data on how adverse health effects of exposure differ across individuals.<h4>Objectives</h4>We tested the hypothesis that population variability in response to certain chemicals could elucidate a role for gene-environment interactions (GxE) in differential susceptibility.<h4>Met ...[more]