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. 2016 Nov 1;113(44):12344-12346.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615329113. Epub 2016 Oct 19.

It takes a genome to understand a village: Population scale precision medicine

Atul J Butte  1
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It takes a genome to understand a village: Population scale precision medicine

Atul J Butte. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Conflict of interest statement

The author has a minor investment in Illumina and other biotech companies. He is a cofounder and consultant to Personalis, a company offering services in medical genome sequencing. The author is a scientific advisor to Geisinger Health System. In the past, he has been a consultant to Regeneron.

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Genetic, genomic, and molecular information will need to be studied in the context of behavioral, social, and environmental measurements, as well as the quality of delivered medical care, all across the entire population, to reach a new data-driven precision medicine.
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  • Deep sequencing of 10,000 human genomes.
    Telenti A, Pierce LC, Biggs WH, di Iulio J, Wong EH, Fabani MM, Kirkness EF, Moustafa A, Shah N, Xie C, Brewerton SC, Bulsara N, Garner C, Metzker G, Sandoval E, Perkins BA, Och FJ, Turpaz Y, Venter JC. Telenti A, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Oct 18;113(42):11901-11906. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1613365113. Epub 2016 Oct 4. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 27702888 Free PMC article.

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