Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment:: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate
Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment:: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate
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DOI：
10.1037/e719722007-001
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2006-11
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L. Hernandez;D. Blazer
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作者：
L. Hernandez;D. Blazer
在过去的一个世纪里，我们在降低疾病发生率和提高人们的总体健康水平方面取得了巨大进步。公共卫生措施，例如环境卫生、改善个人卫生和疫苗；减少工作场所的危险；新药和临床程序；最近，对人类基因组的了解不断加深，在延长人类生命寿命和提高人类生命质量方面发挥了重要作用。但过去几十年进行的研究表明，这种进展（其中大部分是基于一次调查一个致病因素——通常是通过单一学科或一小部分从业者进行的）只能走这么远。 《基因、行为和社会环境》研究了许多详细描述的基因-环境相互作用，回顾了研究此类相互作用的科学状况，并不仅为研究本身，而且还为其劳动力、资源和基础设施需求建议了优先事项。
Over the past century, we have made great strides in reducing rates of disease and enhancing people's general health. Public health measures such as sanitation, improved hygiene, and vaccines; reduced hazards in the workplace; new drugs and clinical procedures; and, more recently, a growing understanding of the human genome have each played a role in extending the duration and raising the quality of human life. But research conducted over the past few decades shows us that this progress, much of which was based on investigating one causative factor at a time—often, through a single discipline or by a narrow range of practitioners—can only go so far. Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment examines a number of well-described gene-environment interactions, reviews the state of the science in researching such interactions, and recommends priorities not only for research itself but also for its workforce, resource, and infrastructural needs.