Same drug, different results: MUHC researcher on the path to personalized medicine
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 11:21
in Health & Medicine
Minor genetic differences between individuals change the effect of a common medication, study shows Medicine has moved a little bit closer to the era of tailor-made treatments, based on the unique genetic profiles of individual patients, according to recent research conducted by Dr Rima Rozen of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) at the Montreal Children's Hospital and McGill University. Her study, published June 18 in the journal Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, shows how minor genetic differences between individuals alter the way a common drug affects the body.
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