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Genomics and the Cardiac Surgeon
Author(s) -
Bullard Miriam Kelley,
Swift Mini,
Harken Alden
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00352.x
Subject(s) - medicine , genomics , medline , general surgery , genome , genetics , gene , law , political science , biology
Until recently, genetics was a course relegated to Saturdays in medical school, and molecular biology was a subject you could only discuss while smoking a pipe. Now, some gene polymorphisms may predict perioperative trouble more precisely than a 10% ejection fraction. Gene chips will soon permit designer therapy and a micro‐array “signature” will soon become fundamental to pre‐operative risk stratification. It is time for the cardiac surgical community to come aboard.