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7-11-2017:How Nature meets Nurture. Seminar Hans Westerhof

18 October 2017

Seminar: Prof. Hans V. Westerhoff

How Nature meets Nurture. Metametabolic maps, multifactorial disease and inborn errors of metabolism

In this presentation we shall discuss how, in principle, molecular networking might complicate the phenomenon 'disease'. We shall show that diseases can be multifactorial in more than one way and how this reduces the power of Genome Wide Association Studies.

  • Date: November 7, 2017
  • Time: 12:30-13:30
  • Location: UMCG, Eriba seminar room at the 3 rd floor of the Eriba Building (A. Deusinglaan 1)
  • Hosts: Prof. Barbara M. Bakker & Prof. Francjan van Spronsen.
Last modified:18 October 2017 10.25 a.m.

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