Welcome to the Genomic Era

Abstract

Editorial. Comments on the last installment on a long running series on genomic medicine. Biology of health diseases unfolding under the new medicine, increasing understanding and perhaps even changing the practice of medicine; Speed with which discovery has progressed; Mention of several medical breakthroughs as a result of mapping the human genome; Supposition that although genomics is powerful, general treatment will probably be done as modifications of the environment rather than the genes; Complications of ethical, legal and social issues in the genome field which could blur the optimistic picture; Prediction of great progress ahead in the treatment of diseases.