Applied Genomics and Public Health

ISBN: 9780128136959 出版年：2019 页码：406 Academic Press_RM

Abstract Personalized medicine aims to translate genomic findings into modern health care to inform medical decision-making and to individualize therapeutic interventions. The overall goal of personalized medicine is to improve the quality of life of the patients and, at the same time, reduce the overall cost of the health-care expenditure. While genomic discoveries are progressing at a very rapid pace, there have been much slower steps in the adjacent public health genomics disciplines, which would help catalyzing integration of these genomic discoveries into modern health care. This chapter provides an overview of the various public health genomics disciplines that are discussed in the various chapters in this textbook.