TY  - JOUR
T1  - INvited commentary—genetic prediction for common diseases
AU  - Ioannidis JA
Y1  - 2012/05/14
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.931
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 744
EP  - 746
VL  - 172
IS  - 9
N2  - 
A major promise of human genetics has been the use of genetic information to predict the risk of common diseases in order to prevent and treat these conditions more effectively. Most common diseases have a complex etiology, and genes are expected to explain much of their risk. However, even though PubMed already retrieves more than 2 million articles with “gene OR genetic” (n = 2 015 109 as of February 10, 2011) and half (n = 1 040 434) are tagged as “Human,” there are formidable difficulties in materializing this promise.1

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.931
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.931
ER  -