Genomic Medicine: Articles from The New England Journal of Medicine

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Foreword / Elias Zerhouni -- Preface / Jeffrey M. Drazen -- List of Contributors -- Glossary -- Getting ready for gene-based medicine / Harold Varmus -- Genomic medicine a primer / Alan E. Guttmacher and Francis S. Collins -- Genetic testing / Wylie Burke -- Population screening in the age of genomic medicine / Muin J. Khoury, Linda L. McCabe, and Edward R.B. McCabe -- Inheritance and drug response / Richard Weinshilboum -- Pharmacogenomics drug disposition, drug targets, and side effects / William E. Evans and Howard L. McLeod -- Pharmacogenetics in the laboratory and the clinic / David B. Goldstein -- Hereditary colorectal cancer / Henry T. Lynch and Albert de la Chapelle -- Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease / Robert L. Nussbaum and Christopher E. Ellis -- Molecular diagnosis of the hematologic cancers / Louis M. Staudt -- Breast and ovarian cancer / Richard Wooster and Barbara L. Weber -- Cardiovascular disease / Elizabeth G. Nabel -- Ethical, legal, and social implications of genomic medicine / Ellen Wright Clayton -- Genomics as a probe for disease biology / Wylie Burke -- Welcome to the genomic era / Alan E. Guttmacher and Francis S. Collins -- Index