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Prereq: GIR:CAL2, 1.00
Units: 3-0-15

Logic and technology needed to discover genetic and environmental causes and accelerating factors for common human cancers. Analyses of large organized historical public health databases using quantitative carcinogenesis cascade models. Java-based model construction for mono- and multi-genic inherited risk for late onset (sporadic) cancers. Analyses of historical and clinical data to define role of environmental risk factors. Graduate students complete additional work.

W. G. Thilly