International Congress Munich 2014

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Personalised exposure and gene environment interactions in chronic airway disease: the exposome and epigenome

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Chairs: S. Holgate (Southampton, United Kingdom), V. Schluenssen (Arhus, Denmark)
Aims: The audience will take away from this session an understanding of:
- The (im)possibility of using traditional exposure approaches to identify risk factors;
- The applicability of personalised exposure;
- The value of personalised exposure compared to traditional environmental risk factor assessment;
- The possibilities of using OMICS in exposure sciences;
- How plausible gene-environment interactions can strengthen causal inference in respiratory epidemiology;
- The concept of gene-environment interactions that underlie COPD; and,
- The role played by gene expression levels in addition to genotype in the onset of COPD.

Omics in population studies: a molecular epidemiology perspective in chronic airway disease S. Bonassi (Rome, Italy)
Smoking, genotype and gene expression levels in COPD Y. Bosse (Quebec, Canada)