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Do not let precision medicine be kidnapped

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Obama’s precision medicine initiative made the medical community boil over after the initiative’s release. Precision medicine has been advocated by the majority of scientists and doctors. However, some experts have questioned this concept. This article does not oppose precision medicine. However, the incentive of vigorously promoting precision medicine at present is a concern.

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  1. Consultancy Program Center, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, 100088, China

    Zhiping Yang

  2. Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Beijing, 100084, China

    Zhiping Yang

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Yang, Z. Do not let precision medicine be kidnapped. Front. Med. 9, 512–513 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-015-0425-8

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