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What is genomic medicine?

Author(s) -

Stéphanie Roth

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of the medical library association jmla

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1558-9439

pISSN - 1536-5050

DOI - 10.5195/jmla.2019.604

Subject(s) - genomic medicine , engineering ethics , health care , data science , personalized medicine , field (mathematics) , medicine , computer science , political science , bioinformatics , engineering , computational biology , biology , law , mathematics , pure mathematics

Genomic medicine is rapidly changing the future of medicine. Medical librarians need to understand this field of research and keep current with its latest advancements. Even if they are not directly involved in genomic medicine, librarians can play an integral role by helping health care consumers and practitioners who may also need to expand their knowledge in this area. This article provides a basic introduction to genomic medicine, gives a brief overview of its recent advancements, and briefly describes some of the ethical, legal, and social implications of this emerging area of research and practice.

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