Bruce R Korf1, Heidi L Rehm

  • 1Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1720 Second Ave S, Kaul 230, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. bkorf@uab.edu

JAMA
|April 11, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

分子遺伝学およびゲノム検査は急速に進歩し,希少および一般的な疾患の新しい診断能力を提供しています. 医師は,パーソナライズされた医療と改善された患者ケアのために,これらのDNA分析技術を活用することができます.

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