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Genomic Medicine, Precision Medicine, Personalized Medicine: What's in a Name?
Author(s) -
Roden D M,
Tyndale R F
Publication year - 2013
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.2013.101
Subject(s) - precision medicine , personalized medicine , genomic medicine , medicine , medline , computational biology , bioinformatics , biology , pathology , biochemistry
This issue of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics is devoted to genomic medicine, and a reader may reasonably ask what we mean when we use those words. In the initial issue of the journal Genomics in 1987, McKusick and Ruddle pointed out that the descriptor “genome” had been coined in 1920 as a hybrid of “gene” and “chromosome,” and that their new journal would focus on the “newly‐developing discipline of mapping/sequencing (including analysis of the information).” A key milestone in the field was the generation of the first draft of a human genome in 2000, but this success really represents only one of many milestones in the journey from Mendel to MiSeq. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2013); 94 2, 169–172. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2013.101