Sometimes genetic mutation or changes in gene expression is not sufficient enough to explain the disease risk. It is necessary to consider some other factors too such as epigenetics (gene modification though it is not changing the nucleotide sequence), environmental factors (behavioral, social, food habit) etc. How these things are correlated and how strong is the correlation?
Henry Heng
The answer is more complicated.
There are more players in this question, namely, the genome.
Using cancer as an example, we have discussed the relationship among these players.
see the paper:
Genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity in cancer: a genome-centric perspective
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=heng+hh%2C+2009
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