Precision Medicine
Get involved in Precision Medicine to advance healthcare in your community and for your family.
What is Precision Medicine?
Precision medicine is a medical approach that uses a person’s health information, including genetic information such as their DNA, to identify the most effective treatment.
Precision medicine allows doctors to select treatments that are more likely to succeed, reduce side effects, and improve the quality of medical care based on your personal situation.
How Can Precision Medicine Benefit Everyone?
Collecting genetic information from individuals of all backgrounds ensures that the field of precision medicine can develop more personalized treatments that could benefit everyone. By looking at the unique genes that people have, scientists can create better and more accurate treatments that help everyone.
Why Biobanks Are Key to Advancing Healthcare
Progress in precision medicine relies heavily on data collected in genetic and health information databases. These databases serve as the foundation for groundbreaking discoveries, helping researchers understand how genetics influence health, disease, and treatment outcomes.
Ensuring representation from individuals of all backgrounds in these databases is essential to making the benefits of precision medicine accessible to everyone. Information from people like you means more accurate research, tailored treatments, and equitable advancements in healthcare.
Without enough representation, certain communities risk being left out of these medical advancements, potentially widening healthcare disparities. By contributing to these databases, individuals play a crucial role in shaping the future of medicine and ensuring that its advancements benefit all populations equally.
Better Health Starts with Representation in Databases
The genetic information of many African, Native American,
Hispanic, and certain Asian populations is not well represented
in research databases. Their genetics can inform disease risk, response to medicines, and rare diseases….but only if they participate in biobanks and clinical research. These databases ensure these groups benefit from precision medicine technologies and informed clinical practice.
Without adequate representation, certain communities risk being left out of these innovations, potentially widening healthcare disparities. By contributing to these databases, individuals play a crucial role in the health of their communities and ensuring that its advancements benefit all populations equally.
"Participation from underserved rural communities in clinical registries and biobanks is key to improving healthcare nationwide. Advances in cancer care and survival have been possible thanks to blood and tissue samples donated by people like you. By participating, you help ensure that your community and individuals with similar genetic backgrounds are represented in the medical breakthroughs that shape the future of healthcare."
Kenneth S. Ramos, MD, PHD
- Professor of Translational Medical Sciences
- Alkek Chair of Medical Genetics
- Executive Director, Institute of Biosciences and Technology
- Director, Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine (CGPM)
- Associate Vice President for Research
- Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Services, Texas A&M University System
- Director, Center of Excellence in Cancer Research
Participation Is Simple and Essential for Our Communities
The opportunity to improve healthcare for our families and community begins here:
- Provide consent: Participation involves signing a consent form to share your health record and biospecimen data, helping researchers study genetic traits and diseases specific to your community's shared ancestry.
- Complete enrollment: You will complete a survey about your health, including medications, current treatments, and overall well-being.
- Provide biospecimens: You’ll provide blood samples and a cheek swab, complete a health survey, and share your email and phone number so we can request annual text updates.
- Annual health check-ins: Once a year, you will receive a brief follow-up text to check on your health status.
Your participant information will remain completely anonymous, and your identity will not be shared beyond the study unless you decide later to allow it.
Study Details
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Contact Us
To learn more and see if you are eligible to participate, please contact a member of the study team at:
Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences & Technology
2121 W Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030
precisionmedicine@tamu.edu
Learn more by visiting mygenesmyhealth.com or scan the QR code below.
