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S4E06: It's Personal: Inclusive Research and Precision Medicine

Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar

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The Importance of Diversity in Medicine

One of the paradoxes of genomics is it teaches us how similar we all are. But yet there is also variation that's associated with our ancestry, which is important. One size fits all approach to thinking about individual disease is no longer where we want to be. We need to do gender and age and lifestyle and lived experience in play into the ways in which our treatments work.

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