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Science 26 April 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5568, pp. 698 - 700
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5568.698
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Viewpoint

Complex Disease and the New Clinical Sciences

Jonathan Rees

Medical research today is dominated by a genocentric point of view. At the same time, clinical discovery and patient-oriented research have become less common. Here, I suggest that these developments are interdependent, each representing the flip side of an inaccurate view of how clinical advance occurs.

Systems Group, Department of Dermatology, University of Edinburgh, The Lauriston Building, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9YW, UK. E-mail: jonathan.rees{at}ed.ac.uk

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