The Conversation

Mon Aug 13

The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyone

Written by Daniel R. Weinberger, Director of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development and Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and The Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

African-Americans are underrepresented in large-scale genetic and neuroscience studies.Wadi Lissa/Unsplash

Could your medical treatment one day be tailored to your DNA? That’s the promise of “personalized medicine,” an individualized approach that has caught the imagination of doctors and researchers over the past few years. This...

The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyone

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