“…1,2 Many other terms have been used in similar contexts, including "stratified medicine," "P4 medicine," "genetic medicine," and "personalized genomics." 2,3 The creation and ultimate popularization of the term "PM," despite its somewhat varied use, have the fundamental roles of synthesizing under a unified title a range of genetics-related health-care practices through which information and knowledge exchanges can take place among scientists, government, industry, and the public at large. Thus, while PM, as a term, remains something of a fluid social construct, taking on diverse meanings based on the context as well as the manner in which it is used, a general, working definition of PM can be understood as "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in environment, lifestyle, and genes for each person."…”