title: Complex disease and the new clinical sciences.
abstract: Medical research today is dominated by a genocentric point of view. At the same time, clinical discovery and patient-oriented research have become less common. Here, I suggest that these developments are interdependent, each representing the flip side of an inaccurate view of how clinical advance occurs.
authors.affiliation: Systems Group, Department of Dermatology, University of Edinburgh, The Lauriston Building, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9YW, UK. jonathan.rees@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rees
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy