Preventive and Predictive Genetics: Towards Personalised Medicine

Traditionally, medical research comprised of the identification of the pathological causes of a disease, its epidemiology and empirical investigation of treatment response. Intensive genetic research, marked by the completion of the human genome project in 2003, heralded a new era in medical researc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Grech, Godfrey (Editor), Grossman, Iris (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine, 9
Subjects:
Medicine > Research.
Biology > Research.
Medical education.
Bioinformatics.
Medical genetics.
Pharmacology.
Medical microbiology.
Biomedical Research.
Medical Education.
Computational and Systems Biology.
Medical Genetics.
Medical Microbiology.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Preventive and Predictive Genetics: A perspective
  • Roadmap to Drug Development Enabled by Pharmacogenetics
  • Preventative and Predictive Genetics: Towards Personalised Medicine
  • Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenetics: bringing the magic bullet closer to reality
  • Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Pharmacogenomics for haemoglobinopathies therapeutics
  • Pharmacogenetics of Neurodegenerative Disorders
  • Pharmacogenetics of asthma
  • Pharmacogenetics and antineoplastic therapies
  • Pharmacogenetics of coumarin anticoagulant therapy
  • Implementation of Genomic Medicine: tools and challenges
  • Ethical Considerations in the Genomic Era
  • Index.

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