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Molecular epidemiology is based on general epidemiology and utilizes the same designs (i.e., case-control and cohort studies) as those employed by general epidemiology. However, molecular epidemiology utilizes molecular biology to define the distribution of disease in a population (i.e., descriptive epidemiology) and identify its potential etiologic determinants (i.e., analytical epidemiology).