News tagged with epidemiological model

Adding Common Genetic Variants to Breast Cancer Risk Models Offers Only Small Benefit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists report that breast cancer risk assessment models, which predict a woman's chance of developing breast cancer, do not perform better when they include common inherited genetic variants recently ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social networking study reveals threat to Tasmanian devils

A new study into the social networks of Tasmanian devils may help prevent the further spread of an extinction-threatening disease. The research, published in Ecology Letters, has produced an intricate social ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pesticide exposure found to increase risk of Parkinson's disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fertile soil of California's Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation's prime crop-growing regions. But it's not just the soil that allows for such productivity. Crops ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2