Relating genomic research to patient care.
Relating genomic research to patient care.
复制标题
将基因组研究与患者护理联系起来。
DOI：
10.1001/jama.284.20.2581
复制
发表时间：
2000
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
M. Friedrich
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
M. Friedrich
PHILADELPHIA—As researchers continue to coax meaning from the fourletter language coiled in the centers of cells, they are amassing great amounts of data about the genetic underpinnings of common conditions such as heart disease and diabetes, information that they hope can be translated into reductions in disease incidence, improvements in diagnosis, and individualized therapies. Because of this work, genomic medicine is less often restricted to the study of rare, inherited conditions and is entering the mainstream of health care. One of the implications of these developments is that primary care physicians will be increasingly called on to integrate genetic information into medical practice, said Alan Guttmacher, MD, of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Md, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. He pointed out that genomic medicine is in a situation similar to that of some infectious diseases 100 years ago, when people with such diseases were sent to experts for treatment. Guttmacher conjectured that before long, it will be unusual for a primary care physician to send a patient to a medical geneticist for a common disease that has a genetic component.
