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Coursera: Genomic Data Science
This guest post is written by Professors Kasper Hansen and Jeff Leek of Johns Hopkins University for the Genomic Data Science Specialization sarting today, June 1st. President Obama recently announced a Precision Medicine Initiative, initially funded with $215 million in 2016, to understand the fundamental characteristics that make us unique and to explore how we can use that information to reduce risk, target therapies, and improve health. One of the cornerstones of this initiative is understanding how our individual genomes are related to disease, health risks and response to treatments. The White House has hired a Chief Data Scientist, DJ Patil, to help spearhead this effort. Why on earth would a data scientist help lead an effort in precision medicine with genomics? The answer is that the majority of precision medicine will involve what we call “genomic data science”. To gather information on people’s genomes we need to measure variations in DNA fr…