Resident risks

摘要

The interplay between genetics and the environment in controlling our health remains an open area of investigation. Technological advances in genome sequencing and analysis have empowered the search for the genetic determinants of human traits and diseases, but genetic variants that directly cause disease have so far been identified for only a small proportion of common diseases. For many other conditions, variants that increase disease risk are known, but the incompleteness of these associations suggests that environmental factors significantly contribute to the likelihood of development of these diseases.