Misreading the genetic blueprint: implications of genetics-based population screening.

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Scheduled for completion in 2003, the Human Genome Project will provide unprecedented insight into the genetic basis of human disease. The choice of genomic medicine, however, must be explored, and not assumed to be the next logical step in the evolution of medicine. Genomic medicine epitomizes the dominant scientific paradigm of reductionism, the theory that the whole is best understood by breaking it down into...

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