The declared aim of “personalized”,“stratified” or “precision” approaches is to place
individual variation, as ascertained through genomic and various other biomarkers, at the …

Precision medicine is being enabled in high-income countries by the growing availability of
health data, increasing knowledge of the genetic determinants of disease and variation in …

Precision medicine enables the customization of patient care driven by experimental data
and knowledge about an individual or a population. Though the data can include omics data …

Personalized medicine has been identified as a powerful tool for addressing the myriad of
health issues facing different health systems globally. Although recent studies have …

The rapid increase in genomics research in Africa and the growing promise of precision
public health (PPH) begs the question of whether African genomics has come of age and is …

The tremendous and unprecedented insights provided by next generation sequencing into
genome functions, variations and interactions promises an enormous shift in our attitude …

Africa, the second most populous continent, is home to the most genetically diverse people
on earth with at least 3000 distinct ethnic groups and more than 2000 languages …

The deep evolutionary history of African populations, since the emergence of modern
humans more than 300,000 years ago, has resulted in high genetic diversity and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in high-throughput sequencing technology as an
essential public health tool. Scaling up and operationalizing genomics in Africa is crucial as …

There is a critical need to increase and diversify genomic study in the global efforts to
achieving full implementation of precision medicine. Given this central importance of Africa …