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Genomic Medicine Stands on the Shoulders of Giants Source: Boris SV/Getty Images Genomic Medicine Stands on the Shoulders of Giants With the benefit of rich, diverse data stores and computational power, scientists in precision medicine are finally realizing ambitions inspired long ago by the Human Genome Project Share When the first published drafts of the human genome appeared 20 years ago, scientists proclaimed that an outpouring of genomically informed medical advances was imminent. For example, Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, then director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and Victor A. McKusick, MD, professor of medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University, predicted that by 2020, the impact of genetics on medicine would be “widespread.” They shared more detailed expectations in a paper titled, “Implications of the Human Genome Project for Medical Science” (

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