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July 01, 2008 Volume 17 No. 7

Putting the Me in Medicine
How genes could change the way we view our health

An integral part of a typical doctor’s visit is filling out paperwork about your health history, including details about the health status of close family members. In traditional medicine, those ‘family histories’ are the closest most physicians have gotten to considering your genome as a diagnostic aid for common complex diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Today, advances in the genome sciences are poised to change that...

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	The genome gets personal An integral part of a typical doctor’s visit is filling out paperwork about your health...
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