The Genome Gets Personal—Almost

JAMAPublished 18 March 2008

W Feero

DOI10.1001/jama.299.11.1351

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Citations162

SJR quartileQ1

SJR score5.35

SNIP10.71

TL;DR

Amy visits with her physician and elects to have complete genomesequencing, and is provided with risk scores for heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, andcoloncancer, and with suggestions for lifestyle modifications.

Abstract

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