Being More Realistic about the Public Health Impact of Genomic Medicine
Open Access
- 12 October 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (10) , e1000347
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000347
Abstract
Wayne Hall and colleagues discuss the limitations of genomic risk prediction for population-level preventive health care.Keywords
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