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your friends and colleagues. Both genetic components and
environmental factors play a role in most chronic diseases,
including type 2 diabetes. In the same way that researchers use
a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) to evaluate the role of
genetic factors in disease, scientists at Stanford University
have used an Environmental-Wide Association Study (EWAS) to
evaluate environmental factors on diabetes. The first-of-its-
kind study appears in the May 20, 2010, issue of PLoS One, an
interactive, open-access journal for peer-reviewed scientific
and medical research. Over 250 environmental factors, including
nutrition and exposure to bacteria, viruses, allergens and
toxins, were examined to discover their contribution to the
development of type 2 diabetes. Public