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Improved Measures of Diet & Physical Activity for the GEI:
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Improved Measures of Diet & Physical Activity for the Genes, Environment, & Health Initiative (GEI)
The Genes, Environment, and Health
Initiative (GEI) is a NIH-wide project led by the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Human Genome Research
Institute (NHGRI). The overarching goal of the GEI is to determine the etiology
of common diseases by focusing on the interaction of genetic and environmental
factors to better understand how these interactions contribute to health and
disease.
The GEI is an investment in genetic studies and environmental monitoring
technologies. The genetic component is focused on genome-wide association
studies and data analytic methods. As genes alone do not tell the whole story,
the other component examines exposure biology.
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