Is Precision Medicine All That Precise?
Authored by: Charlene Lin Art by: Fiona Reilly Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, is a revolutionary approach that tailors medicine to genetic factors, environment, lifestyle, and many more [1]. But what if I told you that many personalized treatments are only precise for people of European descent? Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are at the very core of precision medicine approaches, in which large scale biobank data is used to identify genetic differences linked...