Category: cohort

When a Country Cannot be a Cohort: Challenges of Implementing a Large Precision Medicine Cohort Study in the United States

a huge crowd versus a small group of people

The recently proposed US precision medicine initiative promises a new era of healthcare with targeted disease treatment and prevention. It prominently features a longitudinal study of a national cohort of a million or more people to customize interventions based on a person’s genetics and other factors. The long term goal of this study is to Read More >

Posted on by Muin J Khoury, Director, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Categories genomics, precision medicine
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