title: Obesity Genes, Personalized Medicine, and Public Health Policy.
abstract: The personalized medicine movement-also known as precision medicine and personalized genomics-has embraced the belief that genetic risk information can be used to motivate healthier choices and meaningful behaviour change. While a genuinely exciting area of research, there are numerous policy issues associated with a focus on the use of genetic risk information to personalize approaches to obesity prevention.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Law and School of Public Health, 461 Law Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H5, Canada. Caulfield@ualberta.ca.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Caulfield
mesh_terms: D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D005820:Genetic Testing; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000235:genetics* / Q000517:prevention & control; D010597:Pharmacogenetics; D057285:Precision Medicine
keywords: Genetic testing; Law; Obesity policy; Personalized medicine