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M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 2000;284:2581-2582.

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Philadelphia—As researchers continue to coax meaning from the four-letter language coiled in the centers of cells, they are amassing great amounts of data about the genetic underpinnings of common conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, information that they hope can be translated into reductions in disease incidence, improvements in diagnosis, and individualized therapies. Because of this work, genomic medicine is less often restricted to the study of rare, inherited conditions and is entering the mainstream of health care.

One of the implications of these developments is that primary care physicians will be increasingly called on to integrate genetic information into medical practice, said Alan Guttmacher, MD, of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Md, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. He pointed out that genomic medicine is in a situation similar to that of some infectious diseases 100 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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