News from the NIH: potential contributions of the behavioral and social sciences to the precision medicine initiative

William T Riley; Wendy J Nilsen; Teri A Manolio; Daniel R Masys; Michael Lauer

doi:10.1007/s13142-015-0320-5

News from the NIH: potential contributions of the behavioral and social sciences to the precision medicine initiative

Transl Behav Med. 2015 Sep;5(3):243-6. doi: 10.1007/s13142-015-0320-5.

Authors

William T Riley¹, Wendy J Nilsen¹, Teri A Manolio², Daniel R Masys³, Michael Lauer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, 30 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD USA.
² Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, 5635 Fishers Lane MSC 9305, Bethesda, MD 20892-9305 USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109-4714 USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Sciences of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 8128, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA.

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Keywords: Behavioral risk factors; Cohort studies; Environmental risk factors; Health informatics; Mobile health; Personalized medicine; Pharmacogenetics; Precision medicine; Tailored interventions.