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Hardy-Weinberg law  

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  • Genetic epidemiology aims to understand how genetic variation contributes to disease risk. To best characterize risk relationships, one must first understand how the exposure of interest is distributed within and across populations, before attempting to relate exposure distributions to disease distribution. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Hardy-Weinberg Law]

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