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When we think about genetics, we typically think of patterns of inheritance that affect us and our environment. Will our kids have blue eyes or brown? Is there a risk of a particular disease in our family? Can I eat a gluten-dense pizza with impunity? Rarely do most of us give much thought to the biological processes that control the variables that impact phenotypes. But as more and more has been learned about biology, and especially human molecular biology, it has become clear that almost every physiologic function and risk of pathology, whether organic or behavioral is, at least in part, genetically controlled. Genetics studies the individual genes, while genomics is more dynamic in that it looks at the interaction between genes and genes and the environment.
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Sonis, S. (2015). Fundamentals of Genetics and Genomics. In: Sonis, DMD, DMSc, S. (eds) Genomics, Personalized Medicine and Oral Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17942-1_1
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