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A research agenda for assessing the potential contribution of genomic medicine to tobacco control.
Tobacco control - 1 Feb 2007
Hall Wayne D
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This paper identifies research priorities in evaluating the ways in which "genomic medicine"--the use of genetic information to prevent and treat disease--may reduce tobacco-related harm by: (1) assisting more smokers to quit; (2) preventing non-smokers from beginning to smoke tobacco; and (3) reducing the harm caused by tobacco smoking. The method proposed to achieve the first aim is "pharmacogenetics", the use...
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