Is precision medicine the route to a healthy world? - The Lancet

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Is precision medicine the route to a healthy world? - The Lancet

Is precision medicine the route to a healthy world?

John H Coote

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Michael J Joyner

With the completion of the Human Genome Project, interest in the provision of patient-centred approaches for clinical diagnosis and treatment of disease that allow for individual variability, known as precision medicine or personalised medicine, has increased. On the basis of the belief that only genetics can be used to definitively explain common features of our physiology and pathophysiology, our genome might be able to accurately indicate the individual risk of developing a life threatening impairment during our lifetimes.