A major goal of precision medicine is to improve disease prevention and therapy by using big data provided by genomic technology and electronic health records. In a new study, assessment of a patient population without a history of cardiac disease revealed that genetic variants putatively associated with a risk of sudden death were not linked with arrhythmia phenotypes.
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Behr, E., Krahn, A. Opening Pandora's Box — incidental genetic findings. Nat Rev Cardiol 13, 187–188 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrcardio.2016.27
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