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Science 21 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5845, p. 1687
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147475
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Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
The Future of Personal Genomics

Amy L. McGuire, Mildred K. Cho, Sean E. McGuire, Timothy Caulfield

Routine generation of whole-genome sequences will pose many health system challenges.

1Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

2Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

3Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

4Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: amcguire{at}bcm.edu

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