Precision Medicine and Wellness Science

Precision Medicine and Wellness Science: Genes, Environment, and Pathways to Chronic Disease explores key principles and practical examples of gene-environment relationships and how they affect the health status of individuals. Carefully crafted chapters analyze— drawing on both research and clinical perspectives—how genetic and environmental factors interact at the cellular level to raise an individual’s chronic disease risk, dissecting the complex genotype-phenotype relationships of several common chronic diseases and how they manifest in patients. The book provides illustrative examples from recent literature that offer scientifically based strategies for analyzing chronic disease risk and prolonging wellness. The book also discusses new and future technologies that will be important for developing and applying wellness science (i.e., lifestyle or environmental changes) and precision medicine-based approaches in the next decade, along with the feasibility and potential of recent discoveries and proposed technologies. Throughout, the book features case studies of actual chronic disease patients whose presentation involves genetic and familial concerns, demonstrating how genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors may be assessed when diagnosing an individual’s disease risk.