RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Genomic medicine: challenges and opportunities for physicians
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 416
OP 419
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-5-416
VO 12
IS 5
A1 H Burton
A1 T Cole
A1 AM Lucassen
YR 2012
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/12/5/416.abstract
AB Medicine has always striven to personalise or stratify approaches towards individual patients, but recently these terms have been applied particularly to denote improved disease sub-classification achieved through new genetic and genomic technologies. Techniques to analyse a person's genetic code have improved in sensitivity exponentially over recent years and at the same time the cost of such analyses has become affordable to routine NHS care. This article highlights the significant opportunities that genomics brings to healthcare, as well as some of the practical and ethical challenges.