ACROSS 1 Novelist celebrated on Bloomsday 6 Leaves on a shelf? 11 Pampering place 14 Spheres of study 15 Like 1-Across 16 Granola grain 17 Host of a program also known as “The Factor” 19 “What a cutie!” 20 Pampas weapon 21 Slanted text: Abbr. 22 “A” on many a cornerstone 23 He or I 24 Feature of some German nouns 27 Lee material 29 Locks 30 Half a repartee 32 Stick around 33 Berliner’s direction 34 ’60s-’70s sitcom whose four original family members were married over the course of the series 37 Wee amount 39 “Glee” extra 40 Backing 41 Belgian diamond center 43 Expressive tweet space-savers 47 Virus symptom, perhaps 51 Cries of clarity 52 Temptation garden 53 “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy” speaker 54 Banks on a runway 55 Place for a screwdriver 56 Private details ... or what’s found in this puzzle’s circles 59 Before, to Byron 60 Action movie climax 61 Toys in laps, briefly 62 Newsman Koppel 63 Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” 64 Hobbit on a quest DOWN 1 Elbowed 2 Player with an orange-and-black logo 3 Federal Reserve chair after Bernanke 4 Great misfortune 5 Anka’s “__ Beso” 6 Michelangelo statue 7 Courier alternative 8 Manufacturer of Venus razors 9 Immigrant’s subj. 10 Uncomfortable in singles bars 11 No-goodniks 12 “Dances With Wolves” natives 13 If all goes wrong 18 Edge 22 Short reply? 25 Clutch 26 Pooh’s gloomy pal 28 Monster High doll maker 31 “Done!” 32 C-SPAN fig. 34 Complained under one’s breath 35 Retaliatory act 36 “Oh, it’s fine” 37 Low-risk wager 38 How some foolish things are done 42 Pallid 44 Tribute song on John Lennon’s “Imagine” 45 Rattled 46 Mom’s argument-ending words 48 More than see 49 Birth city of most of the Osmonds 50 Seafood delicacy 56 Hotel amenity 57 Org. with 30 franchises 58 Hawaiian Tropic lotion letters By C.C. 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Using precision medicine, doctors can better create tailored treatment plans that are more effective and efficient for patients than those planned for the average population. There are several components to the initiative: enroll one million participants, collect their genetic samples and health data, and make the data accessible to researchers and scientists. The University will work with several other institutions to develop ways to gather and organize the data from various participating health systems. The program as a whole will also develop methods to analyze the data and protect the privacy of those who share it. Goncalo Abecasis, chair of the University’s Biostatistics Department and the Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, said the University’s particular role is to develop tools for scientists to better understand and use the collected data. “We are part of a team that’s led out of Vanderbilt and Google,” Abecasis said. “They’re going to be organizing all the data and genetic information coming in from the different health systems. Our particular role is going to be to develop research tools that scientists can use to ask questions about the data. For example, they can log into a secure environment and explore the data and understand a specific connection between a certain gene and a certain disease.” One reason the University was chosen to participate in the program is it’s role as a leader in precision medicine research, with current areas of expertise including precision oncology, drug development and targeted therapies, obesity research; health outcomes research and analysis; social research and new approaches to big data. In addition, the University Health System is one of several major medical centers that gathers genetic data and relevant health information from patients who consent to share it for research purposes. For example, the Michigan Genomics Initiative — which began before the Precision Medicine Initiative was announce — has the genetic and medical information of more than 32,000 participants. Abecasis said the Michigan Genomics Initiative was one of the reasons the University was chosen to participate in the project. “I think specifically why we were selected is because the University has a history of developing research tools for using genetic data and making those tools available and accessible to the community,” he said. “For us, it is a great opportunity to be involved. For a lot of what we do in trying to understand human disease and human genetics, having a study of a million people connected to rich data is going to be the future and the start of many exciting things.” University named to national precision medicine program RESEARCH