Genes, the environment and personalized medicine: We need to harness both environmental and genetic data to maximize personal and population health

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ² School of Population and Public Health University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ³ Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
• ⁴ Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁶ AllerGen NCE: the Allergy, Genes, and Environment Network, a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.