Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

Find out what else controls our genes, and what this means for the study of human diseases ... in phenotype clearly shows that gene-environment interaction is indeed an important regulator ...

The past 25 years of human genetics have shown researchers ... of biological sex on all three types of gene-environment interactions. For example, we found that neuroticism had genetic effects ...