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Abstract
The human genome project promised a revolution in health care - the development of 'personalized medicine', where knowledge of an individual's genetic code enables the prediction of risk for specific diseases and the potential to alter that risk based on preventive measures and lifestyle modification. The present brief review provides a report card on the progress toward that goal with respect to respiratory disease. Should generalized population screening for genetic risk factors for respiratory disease be instituted? Or not?Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22891183 PMCID: PMC3411388 DOI: 10.1155/2012/212658
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Can Respir J ISSN: 1198-2241 Impact factor: 2.409