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By Kirell Lakhman, GenomeWeb News editor

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20 (GenomeWeb News) - Drug and diagnostic makers must share more of their outcomes data from pharmacogenomic studies before targeted medicine can catch on more broadly, a health economist said yesterday during a plenary session at this year's Beyond Genome conference, held here this week.

A limited supply of data linking pharmacogenomic research with outcomes is one of the key reasons why the discipline hasn't caught on in the way some tool vendors, drug makers, and healthcare providers had expected, Stephanie van Bebber of the University of California, San Francisco, said during her presentation.

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