Genomics is irrevocably changing the face of biomedical research and, more slowly, clinical medicine. Pediatricians have the unique and exhilarating responsibility to help ensure that young patients derive maximal benefit from genomics during this time of transition in biomedicine. For the foreseeable future, genomics will provide pediatricians new and often unexpected insights into the biological basis of health and disease. Likewise, genomic research will afford new health care options requiring informed and sometimes challenging choices of physicians and patients.
