Abstract In January 2015, President Barack Obama unveiled the “Precision Medicine
Initiative,” a nationwide research effort to help bring an effective, preventive, and therapeutic …

This special supplement is the product of collaboration between the National Institute on
Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and the Food and Drug Administration …

The publication of this supplement on precision medicine and health disparities marks the
5th year since President Barack Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative during …

Recent evidence shows how patients' unique genetic makeup can affect disease outcomes
and the increasing availability of targeted treatments promises a future in health care …

Precision medicine offers a precious opportunity to change clinical practice and disrupt
medicine's reliance on crude racial, ethnic, or ancestral categories by focusing on an …

COMMENTARY efforts to involve genetically and socially diverse groups will be necessary
to satisfy the desideratum of fairly distributing the benefits of precision medicine. The second …

Precision medicine is an emerging field with immense potential for better understanding of
diseases and improved treatment outcomes (1). Its focus: patterns of human genetic …

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, considerable progress has been made
in translating knowledge about the genetic basis of disease risk and treatment response into …

There is growing recognition that the genomic and precision medicine revolution in health
care can deepen health disparities. This has produced urgent calls to prioritize inclusion of …

Disparities in health and healthcare in the United States are widespread, severe, and
unacceptable. Advances in genomics and other precision medicine disciplines over the past …