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Precision medicine holds immense potential to transform health care by tailoring prevention, diagnosis and treatment to each individual (see F. D. Urnov and S. H. Kassim Nature 652, 857–859; 2026). Advances in genomics, large-scale data integration and artificial intelligence have accelerated progress. Yet without deliberate attention to equity, the approach risks entrenching existing disparities rather than reducing them.
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Nature 653, 322 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01442-7
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