Editorial: The Importance of Diversity in Precision Medicine Research
Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, William S. Bush, Dana C. Crawford
Abstract
Personalized or precision medicine is meant to distinguish tailored treatment from trial and error. The contemporary concept has evolved to specifically include the 'omic profile of a patient in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Rapid genomic discoveries made possible through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) coupled with decreasing costs of sequencing and genotyping have shifted precision medicine from an academic exercise to clinical reality for some conditions (e.g.,
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