Epidemiology

Teams will integrate genomic, clinical, and epidemiological data

Published in Health and Medicine Week, October 6th, 2003

Like a puzzle with key pieces missing, gene-expression data provide medical researchers with a critical, but incomplete, story of how complex diseases develop. The other parts of the story only can be revealed when genomic data are analyzed together with clinical and epidemiological data.

Linking computer scientists with life scientists to develop computational tools that will help draw a far more complete picture of the causes behind complex diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis and coronary artery disease is the goal of researchers at the University at Buffalo working under two major federal grants totaling $2.8 million.

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