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Review
. 2019 Mar 1;129(3):946-948.
doi: 10.1172/JCI126119. Epub 2019 Jan 28.

Promises, promises, and precision medicine

Michael J Joyner  1 , Nigel Paneth  2
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Review

Promises, promises, and precision medicine

Michael J Joyner et al. J Clin Invest. .
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Conflict of interest: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Schematic from 1999 illustrating anticipated advances in medicine that foreshadow personalized or precision medicine.
We have highlighted key nodes in this figure to permit us to assess progress over the past 19 years on the six processes that were proposed to be accelerated by the Human Genome Project. Figure reproduced from The New England Journal of Medicine (license no. 4466160787447), Copyright 1999, Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission from Massachusetts Medical Society (1).
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