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Genetics and Genomics in Medicine The Practice of Genetics The medical geneticist is usually a physician who works as part of a team of health care providers, including many other…

Onward During the 50-year professional life of today’s professional and graduate students, extensive changes are likely to take place in the discovery, development, and use of genetic and genomic knowledge…

Variation in the Human Genome With completion of the reference human genome sequence, much attention has turned to the discovery and cataloguing of variation in sequence among different individuals (including…

General References Feero WG, Guttmacher AE, Collins FS. Genomic medicine—an updated primer. N Engl J Med. 2010;362:2001–2011. ed 2. Elsevier: New York; 2012. Ginsburg G, Willard HF. Genomic and personalized…

The Birth and Development of Genetics and Genomics Few areas of science and medicine are seeing advances at the pace we are experiencing in the related fields of genetics and…