Dr. Bert Vogelestein

A familiar assertion in “personalized medicine” is that DNA sequencing will be able to predict future health events.  Perhaps it will to some degree, but one of the world’s leading medical scientists, Dr. Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins Hospital, believes that predictive diagnostics “. . .will not in any way be the most important determinant of patient care.”  In a study he led involving more than 50 thousand identical twins, behavior and environment were far greater factors than DNA in a patient’s health history.  Another researcher in this field asserts that the aim of sequencing is not to personalize existing protocols, but to discovery new and more effective treatments.  MORE

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