Genetics, Big Brother and the GP

[摘要] The imperative to promote primary care involvement with genetics is a familiar story.1,2 If new and more scientific understandings of disease and risk are to be the expected legacy of the Human Genome Project, and if the genetic revolution is transforming medicine in the way that some commentators have claimed, then it will be because genetics has changed both its location — from specialist centres to neighbourhood surgeries — and its focus — from rare single gene conditions to common disease. The 2003 White Paper, Our Inheritance, Our Future3 is the latest high profile attempt to promote and realise this vision.

[学科分类] 卫生学