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"Prevention" and the goals of genetic medicine.

Human gene therapy - 1 Dec 1995

Juengst E T

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Authors participating in the renewed discussion of germ-line gene therapy have begun conflating two senses of the term "prevention," which I distinguish as "phenotypic prevention" and "genotypic prevention." Phenotypic prevention describes medical efforts to forestall the clinical manifestation of a genetic disease in an at-risk patient, like newborn screening and dietary prophylaxis for phenylketonuria....

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PMID: 8664384
DOI: 10.1089/hum.1995.6.12-1595

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