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Precision medicine and the reinvention of human disease /

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Despite what you may have read in the popular press and in social media, Precision Medicine is not devoted to finding unique treatments for individuals, based on analyzing their DNA. To the contrary, the goal of Precision Medicine is to find general treatments that are highly effective for large num...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Jules J. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Genomics.
Personalized medicine.
Pharmacogenetics.
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis.
Precision Medicine.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : seriously, what is precision medicine?
  • Redefining disease causality
  • Genetics : clues, not answers to the mysteries of precision medicine
  • Disease convergence
  • The precision of the rare diseases
  • Precision organisms
  • Reinventing diagnosis
  • Precision data
  • The alternate futures of precision medicine.