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Nature 414, 139 (8 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35102713

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Epidemiology set to get fast-track treatment

Declan Butler

A consortium of leading European research centres and pharmaceutical companies will this week announce a plan to transform epidemiology by combining it with the new techniques of high-throughput biology.They plan to create a new field of study — 'genomic epidemiology' — by using screening technologies derived from the human genome project to chart the molecular, metabolic and disease profiles of thousands of clinical-trial subjects.