Diagnosing disease through DNA. An exciting new frontier.

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BACKGROUND: The family physician is at the forefront of the modern genetics (DNA) revolution. Advances in genetics will continue to escalate as the human genome project reaches its conclusion. The result will be a vast compendium of newly discovered genes and demand from both patients and doctors for more information about them. OBJECTIVE: To describe the role of DNA testing in diagnosing and predicting disease....

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