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From “magic bullet” to “specially engineered shotgun loads”: the new genetics and the need for individualized pharmacotherapy
Author(s) -
Erickson Robert P.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-1878(199808)20:8<683::aid-bies12>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - magic bullet , pharmacotherapy , pharmacogenetics , computational biology , disease , medicine , biology , genetics , bioinformatics , gene , genotype
Steady progress in the identification of human pharmacogenetic variants and new discoveries of disease susceptibility genes makes the old notion of one disease/one drug untenable. Advances in the ability to rapidly identify these variants, when coupled with appropriate drug delivery systems, should revolutionize pharmacotherapy. BioEssays 20 :683–685, 1998.© 1998 John Wiley & Sons Inc.