Molecular Epidemiology: Principles and Practices

Audience: Graduate students and researchers in epidemiology and molecular biology, cancer researchers, and medical residents.

This book serves as a primer for laboratory and field scientists who are shaping the emerging field of molecular epidemiology. Molecular epidemiology builds on the developments and techniques of molecular biology, providing powerful tools to supplement or improve epidemiological research to identify exposure, disease, or susceptibility in human populations. It assists traditional epidemiologists in reducing misclassification, understanding mechanisms, and identifying risks to individuals and groups.
Molecular Epidemiology is a compendium of the principles for and practice of Molecular epidemiology. Focusing on methods for using biological markers in epidemiological research, this book explores markers relevant to a broad range of organ and disease systems research. It enumerates the considerations necessary for valid field research and provides a resource on the salient and subtle features of biomarkers. The book also includes discussions of statistics and validation, a review of issues pertaining to specimen collection, and a look at the sociological implications of using biological markers in epidemiological research.

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A compendium of the principles for the practice of molecular epidemiology. Focusing on methods for using biological markers in epidemiological research, it explores markers relevant to a broad range of organ and disease systems research. It also includes discussions of statistics and validation, a review of issues pertaining to specimen collection, and a look at the sociological implications of using biological markers in epidemiological research. For laboratory and field scientists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Schulte is an epidemiologist with interests in education, quantitative risk assessment, health communication, use of biological markers in epidemiologic research, intervention research, and genetics. In recent years, he has conducted extensive research on occupational cancer. He has focused on issues of dissemination of occupational safety and health information. Dr. Schulte is the editor of the textbook entitled, “Molecular Epidemiology: Principles and Practices.” He has served as guest editor of the Journal of Occupational Medicine and the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and was on the initial editorial board of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. He also has served as a consultant to various organizations such as the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the National Academy of Sciences, the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom, WHO, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the Department of Energy.