Healthy person's genome analyzed to predict risk for diseases, responses to treatments
Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
For the first time, researchers have used a healthy person's complete genome sequence to predict his risk for dozens of diseases and how he will respond to several common medications.
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