Genomic Medicine, Precision Medicine, Personalized Medicine: What's in a Name?. Issue 2 (24th May 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roden, D M; Tyndale, R F
• Is Part Of: Clinical pharmacology & therapeutics. Volume 94:Issue 2(2013)
• Page Start: 169
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2013-05-24
• Subjects: Pharmacology -- Periodicals; Therapeutics -- Periodicals; 615.5
• DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2013.101
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-9236

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This issue of <italic>Clinical Pharmacology &amp; Therapeutics</italic> is devoted to genomic medicine, and a reader may reasonably ask what we mean when we use those words. In the initial issue of the journal <italic>Genomics</italic> in 1987, McKusick and Ruddle pointed out that the descriptor "genome" had been coined in 1920 as a hybrid of "gene" and "chromosome, " and that their new journal would focus on the "newly‐developing discipline of mapping/sequencing (including analysis of the information)." A key milestone in the field was the generation of the first draft of a human genome in 2000, but this success really represents only one of many milestones in the journey from Mendel to MiSeq.</p> <p> <italic>Clinical Pharmacology &amp; Therapeutics</italic> (2013); <bold>94</bold> 2, 169–172. doi:<ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:type="simple" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">10.1038/clpt.2013.101</ext-link></p> </abstract>