Genome in a Bottle
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FDA to Advance Precision Medicine by Enabling Open Source Collaborative Informatics
By Taha A. Kass-Hout, M.D., M.S., and David Litwack, Ph.D. | August 5, 2015
FDA plays an integral role in President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, which foresees the day when an individual’s medical care will be tailored in part based on their unique characteristics and genetic make-up. Yet while more than 80 million genetic variants have been found in the human genome, we don’t understand the role that most of these variants play in health or disease. Achieving the President’s vision requires working collaboratively to ensure the accuracy of genetic tests in detecting and interpreting genetic variants. We are working towards that goal by developing an informatics community and supporting platform we call precisionFDA.
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