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Molecular Epidemiology

"Molecular Epidemiology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The application of molecular biology to the answering of epidemiological questions. The examination of patterns of changes in DNA to implicate particular carcinogens and the use of molecular markers to predict which individuals are at highest risk for a disease are common examples.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Molecular Epidemiology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Molecular Epidemiology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1998 and 2001 and 2019 and 2021
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