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Researching the weekly update, OGDP finds scientific literature that reports on discoveries of genetic variants, related disease outcomes, and the complex social, legal, and ethical issues surrounding genetic discoveries. A Public Health Perspective focuses on a single topic and provides you with information relevant to public health practice.
This week we are examining the public health perspective of pharmacogenomics , a burgeoning field that promises to revolutionize medicine by deciphering the genetic basis of variable drug response in individual people. (February 2001)
"For clinical medicine, pharmacogenomics holds promise of individualized drug treatment. For public health, the promise is targeted disease prevention." |
The Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention |
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