Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Peronalized Medicine

Human anatomy is similar in functionalities with other human. But Human genome is not identical. Genes are responding differently with environment and life style. Each individual has variations in their genome. Based on these variations different drugs are responding in different level.

Now a days Genome wide disease association studies are very interesting and coming up with new SNPs and Disease association. Recent studies confirms the association of SNPs and Cancers.

Based on the SNPs even we can predict the traits like eye color, hair color..etc.

Genotyping cost is being reduced every month. So by genotyping an individual he can find the SNPs in his genome. And based on the SNPs in future doctors can refer the drugs.

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