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ecogenetics  

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  • Related to environmental sciences (particularly environmental health or biomedicine) and to molecular biology and genetics, ecogenetics is an emergent discipline in the interphase of these sciences. Ecogenetics initially attempted to study and understand how the genetic and environmental factors could together influence the organism's response to carcinogenic agents and other imposed stresses. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Ecogenetics]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/ecogenetics

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