The University of Virginia School of Medicine is creating software that will help people collect accurate and complete family medical histories over the World Wide Web.
The histories are going to be increasingly important in the coming years when the Human Genome Project is finished and doctors know the genetic makeup of their patients. Doctors can better prevent and treat disease if they know how their patients' genes work. But they will need family histories to interpret genetic information. For many people, even routine medical history questionaires can be difficult to fill out.
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