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<u><b>20.102 (BE.102) Macroepidemiology<br>
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</b></u>Professor William G. Thilly<br>
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thilly@mit.edu<br>
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Prereq: --<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Lecture:<i> T3-4.30</i> (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=56">56-614</a>)<br>
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Analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancers,
diabetes, vascular and infectious diseases. Analytical models to
derive estimates for historically variant population risk factors and
physiological rate parameters. Analysis of familial and community data
to separately estimate inherited and environmental risks. Basic
population genetics and technology to discover genes carrying risk for
common diseases. New this fall: consideration of role of novel nuclear
forms in human and mouse embryos that appear to act as stemcells for
fetal organogenesis and carcinogenesis. (Meets with graduate course,
20.215)<br>
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