Gene-environment interaction
Dean’s message: From genes to the globe
HSPH is helping propel the growing study of how genes and environmental forces interact to cause disease—from diabetes to asthma to the afflictions of aging.
Environmental threats—Where DNA meets daily life
That dance between genes and environment is the focus of a burgeoning field of public health research—one that could someday have a big payoff.
Genes and environment initiative launched
The initiative is designed to bring together several areas of traditional excellence HSPH — environmental health research, population science, quantitative methods, and basic science — to better understand the combined effects of genetic and environmental factors on human health.
Tick, tick, tick, boom
How genes and environmental interactions increase cancer risk
A new twist on inherited cancer risk
Slight DNA variations raise risk of common breast, prostate tumors
Age-related vision loss
Teasing apart the influences of genes versus lifestyle
Wave of the future
Mining the human genome for links to disease
Mystery of the metabolic supermice
A rare mouse gene variant casts light on obesity’s human toll
Biostatistical breakthrough
Taking a novel tack, HSPH researchers uncover an obesity gene