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system, which focuses on prevention, suboptimal health management, and
control in populations. China is already a major contributor in the control
and management of the global health burden and disease risks, as this is an
inevitable aspect of China’s growing international participation in the global
trade of goods and services. The integration of traditional knowledge and mod-
ern technologies in genomic medicine in China will ultimately have profound
meaning for the shaping of health care and research policy, while also con-
tributing to the development of health care in other countries, for instance, in
those of the developing world (Forero et al., 2016).

Acknowledgments

Author acknowledge that parts of the data presented in this chapter have previously been published
in our earlier articles (Adua et al., 2017; Asweto et al., 2016; Kupaev et al., 2016; Lu et al., 2011;
McLachlan et al., 2016; Peng et al., 2006; Shao et al., 2013; Wang, 2016; Wang and Yan, 2012; Wang
et al., 2014, 2016a–c; Wang et al., 2017; Yan et al., 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015; Yun et al., 2012a,b;
Zhao et al., 2011, 2014; Zheng et al., 2010a,b). This chapter uses the original data but provides a
new interpretation based on the innovative paradigm of predictive, preventive and personalized
medicine.

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