Musings on genome medicine: genome wide association studies
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* Corresponding author: David G Nathan david_nathan@dfci.harvard.edu
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Genome Med 2009, 1:3 doi:10.1186/gm3
Published: 20 January 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
We are grateful to the editors of Genome Medicine, who have rather incautiously invited us to write a monthly commentary on the exciting events that have occurred in this burgeoning field. We have decided to write the column together because one of us (DGN) is a clinical investigator and the other (SHO) is a basic geneticist and developmental biologist. Together, we believe we can do justice to the field and eschew cant. We begin with a discussion of the controversial role of genome-wide association studies in clinical medicine.