Toward precision medicine: A new social contract?

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 129, 2012, Pages

  Desmond Hellmann, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; CONTRACT; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL MEDICINE; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY;

HUMANS; MEDICINE;

EID: 84860359497     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003473     Document Type: Editorial

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