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Patients’ Response to Gene-Based Risk Data Not Universal, UK Researcher Finds

Mar 26, 2008
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Researchers optimistic about the prospects of personalized medicine have long asserted that knowledge of genetic predisposition to certain diseases would improve public health by allowing for earlier interventions. However, changing human behavior is not so simple, according to the work of one researcher in the UK.
 

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