Atul Butte
Publication Details
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Predicting environmental chemical factors associated with disease-related gene expression data.
BMC Med Genomics. 2010: 17
Many common diseases arise from an interaction between environmental and genetic factors. Our knowledge regarding environment and gene interactions is growing, but frameworks to build an association between gene-environment interactions and disease using preexisting, publicly available data has been lacking. Integrating freely-available environment-gene interaction and disease phenotype data would allow hypothesis generation for potential environmental associations to disease.

