2009 and beyond: the decade of personalised medicine.
With a better understanding of the human genome, it is possible to tailor the medical care, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, to an individual's needs. This revolution of medical care is called Personalised Medicine. This paper provides a brief review of recent progresses in high-throughput measurement technologies, their effects on personalise medicine, milestone projects in human genome researches and related challenges in bioinformatics and computational biology.
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Pan
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The Biomedical Informatics Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. dupan@northwestern.edu
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Simon M
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Yang
Mary Qu
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Yang
Jack Y
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