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Exposing the exposome: Why medicine just got more complicated

Good health is not a linear process but the result of many 'systems' working in tandem
Professor Garry Egger
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9 January 2019
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You may well have heard about the genome, the microbiome, the metabolome and many other kinds of ‘omes’ in modern biology. Now, make way for the exposome.

The ‘ome’ suffix means simply, the total of everything related to the stem of the word it accompanies. Thus, genome: total of genes; microbiome: total of microbes; and so on.

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