Causality in cancer research: a journey through models in molecular epidemiology and their philosophical interpretation
Abstract In the last decades, Systems Biology (including cancer research) has been driven by technology, statistical modelling and bioinformatics. In this paper we try to bring biological and philosophical thinking back. We thus aim at making different traditions of thought compatible: (a) causality...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Emerging Themes in Epidemiology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12982-017-0061-7 |