Monthly Archives: March 2015

Environment-Wide Association Studies (EWAS) provide an untargeted and comprehensive approach for considering environmental factors and their involvement in complex health/disease traits. EWAS techniques are analogous to GWAS approaches and as an extension, layering GWAS and EWAS approaches offer a strategy to identify specific complex traits with larger and more relevant impacts on disease. An Environment-Wide Association Study (EWAS) […]

The future of environmental health and exposome-related research lies with current students. Their fresh perspectives and enthusiasm are invaluable to these projects and the advancement of the field. HERCULES offered students the opportunity to participate in pilot project research and was met with both an incredible interest and response to the work the Center is doing. Here […]