Science Journal of Public Health

Special Issue

Effects of Polymorphisms on Personal Susceptibility to Environmental Hazards

  • Submission Deadline: Dec. 20, 2014
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Ibrahim Acikbas
About This Special Issue
Variations in the human genome (SNP/polymorphisms) determine individual fate in population. Genetic polymorphisms create protein-enzyme variants. Enzymatic variations lead to individual differences in response to many environmental hazards, occupational exposure as well as drugs. Mostly activity and response time of the metabolic pathway of the related enzyme changes and render some individual susceptible and others resistance or unaffected phenotypically or clinically. Determination of population polymorphism profiles in industrial intensive region and near waste treatment plants are important for early intervention and preventive actions.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Ibrahim Acikbas

    Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Madicine, Pamukkale Unversity, Kinikli, Turkey

Guest Editors
  • Ayşe Gaye TOMATIR

    Pamukkale University Medical Faculty, Turkey

  • Selim Kortunay

    , Turkey

  • Abigail Basson

    Dietetics Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa