EU network for public health genomics gets underway

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Publication Date 01/03/2006
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Modern research in genetics and molecular biology offers new opportunities for improving public health and for helping the authorities tackle common diseases. It is important to integrate – responsibly and effectively – genome-based knowledge and technologies into public health policy and national health services. A new European network, called PHGEN, hopes to clarify the main issues that this new field of science and medicine raises for public health authorities, Europe-wide.

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