The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of Genome Analysis in Medicine
The genome itself is going to reveal a whole series of diseases for which we're going to have to fix, make drugs and so forth. For example, there are roughly 7000 rare diseases. We do this on an individual basis because the rare diseases occur once in 200,000 people. So we'll want to have genome wide analyses of the whole population that hopefully at birth can say you have four gene defects. And here are some that we have drugs for and the rest we don't.
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