The role of genomics in medicine―past, present and future

The fundamental idea that responses to environmental factors or treatments is to be found in our individual differences,the underlying concept of“genomic medicine”,is rooted in antiquity and based on millennia of simple observation.Simply put,the objective of genomic medicine is to determine the genetic bases of those differences in response to en-vironmental agents,including medications,and dif-ferences that may predispose to the development of common and potentially personally devastating a…