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Personalized Medicine: A Personal View
Author(s) -
Meyer U A
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1038/clpt.2011.238
Subject(s) - personalized medicine , clinical pharmacology , precision medicine , human genome , disease , drug response , medicine , computational biology , psychology , drug , bioinformatics , pharmacology , genome , biology , genetics , pathology , gene
Personalized medicine is a strategy to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease so as to achieve an optimal result for the individual. The sequencing of the human genome and other technological advances have revealed the extent of genetic diversity and the relative contribution of genetic and nongenetic factors to human health, disease, and drug response. The challenge is to translate this knowledge into tangible benefits for the patient. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2012); 91 3, 373–375. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2011.238