title: Personalized medicine: a personal view.
abstract: Personalized medicine is a strategy to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease so as to achieve an optimal result for the individual. The sequencing of the human genome and other technological advances have revealed the extent of genetic diversity and the relative contribution of genetic and nongenetic factors to human health, disease, and drug response. The challenge is to translate this knowledge into tangible benefits for the patient.
authors.affiliation: Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. urs-a.meyer@unibas.ch
authors.forename: U A
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D014644:Genetic Variation; D015894:Genome, Human; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000592:standards*; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations