Personalised medicine and genetic prediction--are we there yet?

Clin Med (Lond). 2013 Dec:13 Suppl 6:s62-4. doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.13-6-s62.

Abstract

A working definition of personalised medicine is the delivery of a tailor-made treatment to the right patient at the right time. How close have recent advances in genetics come to realising this in the clinic?

Keywords: Prediction; biomarker; genome-wide association scanning (GWAS); stratification.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Precision Medicine*