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Personalized medicine in drug development and clinical practice
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Editorial

The value of genetic risk scores in precision medicine for diabetes

Mark I. McCarthyWellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Anubha MahajanWellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKView further author information
Pages 279-281 | Received 18 Jun 2018, Accepted 08 Aug 2018, Published online: 14 Aug 2018

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