Preventive and Predictive Genetics: Towards Personalised Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grech, Godfrey (Editor), Grossman, Iris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine, 9
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Drug resistance.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Systems biology.; Medical education.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.; Medical Education.; Systems Biology.; Human Genetics.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Drug Resistance.

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...