[bioundgrd] Fwd: Class 20.102 Thilly

[Janice Chang]

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>20.102  (BE.102)  Macroepidemiology
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>Professor William G. Thilly
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>thilly at mit.edu
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>  Prereq: --
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>Units: 3-0-9
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>Lecture: T3-4.30 (<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=56>56-614)
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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)
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>Dalia Gabour
>Academic Administrator
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>MIT Biological Engineering Division
>77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 56-651
>Cambridge, MA 02139
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>Ph   617.253.5804
>Fax  617.258.8676
>Email	dalia at mit.edu
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