Precision Medicine and its Imprecise History

Christopher J. Phillips

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Phillips sketches a history of precision medicine.Though sometimes portrayed as a field with roots primarily in genetics, he describes the decisive historical role played by statisticians and data scientists, particularly a group of midcentury biostatisticians located at the National Institutes of Health.

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