The Exposome: A Powerful Approach for Evaluating Environmental Exposures and Their Influences on Human Disease
February 25-26, 2010
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NAS Building, Auditorium
2100 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
- Registration Will Open December 1
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*Note: After the workshop adjourns, committee and government liasons meet until approximately 3:00 p.m.
Recognizing the disparity in current knowledge between genes and
environmental exposures, Dr. Christopher Wild defined the "exposome,"
representing all environmental exposures from conception onwards
(including exposures from diet, lifestyle, and endogenous sources) as a
quantity of critical interest to disease etiology (Wild, 2005). Dr. Wild argued
that if we expect to succeed in identifying the combined effects of
genetic and environmental factors on chronic diseases, we must develop
21st-century tools to characterize exposure levels in human populations.
This workshop will examine the concept of the exposome and its importance
to the etiology of human diseases. In doing so, we will consider the
roles that epidemiologists and laboratory scientists can play in
identifying resources and technologies for elaborating the exposome in
human populations.
Wild CP. Complementing the genome with an "exposome": the outstanding challenge of environmental exposure measurement in molecular epidemiology.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers
Prev, 2005; 14(8): 1847-50.
