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Your genomic future: Personalised medicine is here

By Peter Aldhous

4 September 2013

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Only six other children in the world are known to have the same condition as Lillian Yuska (Image: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin)

Genome sequencing is bringing a medical revolution for families with rare diseases, and the rest of us will benefit too. Find out how in this special report

Editorial:The right to genetic ignorance

FOR the Yuska family, the future of medicine is here. Thanks to genome sequencing, parents Danielle and Erik have a name for the mysterious condition that they feared would take the life of , and they have an idea of what…

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