Health care economics articles within Nature Reviews Genetics

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• Comment | 29 November 2018

  The value of genetic testing for family health history of adopted persons

  The lack of family health history experienced by most adopted persons can represent a marked disadvantage for these individuals. Genetic testing has the potential to reliably and usefully fill informational gaps, but considerable challenges need to be addressed to assemble an economic case for affordability.

  • Thomas May

• Comment | 22 October 2018

  Going to the negative: genomics for optimized medical prescription

  In personalized medicine, a major aim is to provide the right treatment to the right patient. In this Comment article, Gibson discusses how a more overt and genomics-informed focus on those individuals who are unlikely to benefit from treatment could reduce prescription rates and provide financial and health-care benefits.

  • Greg Gibson