Preventive and Predictive Genetics: Towards Personalised Medicine
Editors: Grech, Godfrey, Grossman, Iris (Eds.)
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Pharmacogenomics supports personalized medicine by translating genome-based knowledge into clinical practice, offering enhanced benefit for patients and health-care systems at large. Current routine practice for diagnosing and treating patients is conducted by correlating parameters such as age, gender and weight with risks and expected treatment outcomes. In the new era of personalized medicine the healthcare provider is equipped with improved ability to prevent, diagnose, treat and predict outcomes on the basis of complex information sources, including genetic and genomic data. Targeted therapy and reliable prediction of expected outcomes offer patients access to better healthcare management, by way of identifying the therapies effective for the relevant patient group, avoiding prescription of unnecessary treatment and reducing the likelihood of developing adverse drug reactions.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-6
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Preventive and Predictive Genetics: A perspective
Pages 7-41
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Roadmap to Drug Development Enabled by Pharmacogenetics
Pages 43-67
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Pharmacogenetics—Statistical Considerations
Pages 69-89
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Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenetics: Bringing the Magic Bullet Closer to Reality
Pages 91-107
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Preventive and Predictive Genetics: Towards Personalised Medicine
- Editors
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- Godfrey Grech
- Iris Grossman
- Series Title
- Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine
- Series Volume
- 9
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-15344-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-15344-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-15343-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38057-5
- Series ISSN
- 2211-3495
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 378
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
- Topics