From Prescription to Transcription: Genome Sequence as Drug Target
Author(s) -
Cong Guo,
Anthony D’Ippolito,
Timothy E. Reddy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.033
Subject(s) - biology , rosiglitazone , drug , type 2 diabetes , nuclear receptor , genetics , heritability , computational biology , transcription factor , bioinformatics , genome wide association study , pharmacology , diabetes mellitus , receptor , gene , endocrinology , genotype , single nucleotide polymorphism
Personalizing treatments to account for genetically mediated differences in drug responses is an exciting opportunity to improve patient outcomes. In this issue, Soccio et al. reveal new mechanisms by which non-coding variants alter the activity of the anti-diabetic drug rosiglitazone.
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