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SUBMITTER: Degoma EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3761360 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Degoma Emil M EM Rivera Giovanni G Lilly Scott M SM Usman M Haris U MH Mohler Emile R ER
Vascular medicine (London, England) 20111001 5
Personalized medicine refers to the application of an individual's biological fingerprint - the comprehensive dataset of unique biological information - to optimize medical care. While the principle itself is straightforward, its implementation remains challenging. Advances in pharmacogenomics as well as functional assays of vascular biology now permit improved characterization of an individual's response to medical therapy for vascular disease. This review describes novel strategies designed to ...[more]