{"id":993,"date":"2007-05-22T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/the-third-largest-problem-in-epidemiology-2\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T21:19:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T20:19:37","slug":"the-third-largest-problem-in-epidemiology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/the-third-largest-problem-in-epidemiology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The third largest problem in epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-moblog- In my view, epidemiology is not very flexible to adjust to new methods and new techniques. Following some discussion that I had today with STW about eQTLs (quantitative traits derived by RNA microarrays or metabolome profiles) and JMA about system biology, it is likely that we are facing huge changes. Phenotypes may no more called intermediary and we may soon forget old controversies of disease definition. We will instead use new system-terms like <em>NonImm076Trig31Ste0098<\/em> or <em>TLR9-096321-Auto5337<\/em>. Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-moblog- In my view, epidemiology is not very flexible to adjust to new methods and new techniques. Following some discussion that I had today with STW about eQTLs (quantitative traits derived by RNA microarrays or metabolome profiles) and JMA about system biology, it is likely that we are facing huge changes. Phenotypes may no more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/05\/the-third-largest-problem-in-epidemiology-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The third largest problem in epidemiology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,5],"tags":[1079,1078,747,1077,1076],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-genetics-biology","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-intermediary","tag-microarrays","tag-phenotypes","tag-quantitative_traits","tag-system_biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}