Announcementof the precision medicine initiative has led to a variety of responses, ranging
from enthusiastic expectations1 to explicit skepticism, 2 about potential health benefits …

The announcement by President Obama of a precision medicine initiative created
excitement in the medical community. The president referred not to personalized medicine …

The new US precision medicine initiative1 has been made possible by improvement and
price reduction in genome sequencing, as well as advances in multiple sectors of …

In an effort to improvethe risk-benefit profile of therapies in clinical care, precision medicine
seeks to identify and make use of factors, often genetic variants or biomarkers, that influence …

Precisionmedicinehasthepotentialtotransfor…-cine by tailoring treatments to individuals. By
providingtherighttreatmentattherighttime, healthcarecould be delivered with greater …

Over the past decade, precision medicine (PM) approaches have received significant
investment to create new therapies, learn more about disease processes, and potentially …

The Precision Medicine Initiative1 promises a new healthcare era. A proposed 1 million—
person cohort could create a deeper understanding of disease causation. Improvements in …

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Personalized or precision medicine maintains that medical care and public health will be
radically transformed by prevention and treatment programs more closely targeted to the …

In 1999 Francis Collins published a foundational document of precision medicine entitled
“Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project,”(1) which made …