title: Concepts and terms in genetic epidemiology: some similarities to infectious disease epidemiology.
authors.affiliation: Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Khoury
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D004813:Epidemiology; D005796:Genes; D005823:Genetics; D006801:Humans; D013029:Space-Time Clustering; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014774:Virulence