The Road to Precision Medicine for Children: Resilience, Vulnerability, and Gene Polymorphism

See related article, p 189Resilience in children in the face of adversity has been an elusive target of our scientific investigations. Why do some children who experience significant adversity, such as poverty and food insecurity, do well despite serious hardship, while others do not? The term resilience is used in a variety of ways—sometimes to reflect internal processes or capacities within the individual, sometimes as a process to take...