title: Genetic self knowledge and the future of epidemiologic confounding.
abstract: Prior work has considered how our genetic knowledge might allow for personalized medicine. This commentary explores the reverse question of what personalized genetic medicine might do to our research process, not only in genetics, but in epidemiology more generally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. tvanderw@hsph.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Tyler J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: VanderWeele
authors.forename: Tyler Vander
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Weele
mesh_terms: D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D005826:Genetics, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*