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BENEFITS & IMPACT

Predictive Medicine holds the potential of finding solutions to several ailments and greatly improving healthcare in the following ways.

Personal, Preventative Diagnosis and Treatment

         Through Predictive Medicine and its analysis of the specific genome sequence of an afflicted individual, precise diagnosis and treatment could be discovered and applied in our society. This disclosure is further discussed by Leslie G. Biesecker, M.D. of NHGRI:

Advanced, Leading Healthcare

       Predictive Medicine is the pathway towards the transformation of 21st century healthcare. Through Predictive Medicine, "the application of improved disease understanding to the needs of individual patients will have a profound effect on modern medical practice". Predictive Medicine's patient-targeted methods "can be applied to the five key areas of treatment selection (pharmacogenetics) and medicine response testing, predisposition profiling, health status monitoring, diagnosis and monitoring for treatment response". (2.6)

 

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Understanding your DNA

       Predictive Medicine enables us to better understand our genetic makeup and what is specifically causing any of our hereditary disorders. Through understanding and analyzing our DNA, we would be able to discover our carrier statuses, health risks, drug responses, and more.

 

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These benefits are being made visible in our society today through several applications.

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