A Behind-the-Scenes Story of Precision Medicine *

E-mail: mvo@u.washington.edu (Olson MV). The Chinese translation of this article was published as Forward for a book republishing the two US National Research Council reports for the Human Genome Project and the Precision Medicine Initiative in Chinese, which is entitled The 60-year Metamorphosis of Genomics: Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome and Toward Precision Medicine translated by Yu J, Ren L, Yang Y, Wang X, Yin J, Ye J, et al. Beijing: Science Press; 2016. The title of this article and author introduction were added by the journal editor of Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. Peer review under responsibility of Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Genetics Society of China.