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01/Jul/2014
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082014RW2859
Personalized medicine is the use of biomarkers, most of them molecular markers, for detection of specific genetic traits to guide various approaches for preventing and treating different conditions. The identification of several genes related to heredity, oncology and infectious diseases lead to the detection of genetic polymorphisms that are involved not only in different clinical progression of these diseases but also in variations in treatment response. Currently, it is possible to detect these polymorphisms using several methodologies: detection of single […]
Keywords: Anticoagulants; Blood coagulation; DNA; Genetics; Hepatitis C; Individualized medicine; medical; Molecular medicine; Neoplasms; Pharmacogenetics