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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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  From Stanford today astudyresults released showing the effectiveness of a genetic test indicating which patients infected with theHepatitis C viruswill progress to cirrhosis (destroyed shrunken liver). Until this study gastroenterologists had to guess which patients would develop this condition. None of the clinical factors including alcohol use or age at infection could accurately predict cirrhosis. This signature panel of 7 single nucleotide polymorphisms predicted risk better than clinical factors. Does that mean this test co developed byCelera Genomicsis useful for all? Well....
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