To the Editor: The continuing integration of genetic technologies into clinical medicine is providing opportunities for health care improvement. This has the potential to reduce health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in several ways: improving our understanding of disease pathogenesis, obtaining a perspective from which to view environmental risks, improving prediction of disease risk, identifying new diagnostic techniques and drug targets, and making advances in pharmacogenomics.
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