the glocalized network in theragenomic and personalized medicine and the genetics of individual patients safety of drugs
October 21, 2017 – Just seen on PubMed: Ziegelstein RC J Pers Med 2017 Oct;7(4) PMID: 29035320 Abstract Clinical practice guidelines have been developed for many common conditions based on data from randomized controlled trials. When medicine is informed …
Personomics: The Missing Link from Precision Medicine to Personalized Medicine Read more »
July 27, 2017 – Jewish women of Ashkenazi descent may be at risk for additional genetic mutations that increase their risk of breast cancer, according to a new study just published in JAMA Oncology. Researchers from University of Washington in Seattle …
Ashkenazi Jewish Women: Little-known Gene Mutations May Boost Breast Cancer Risk Read more »
July 18, 2017 – According to a new study just published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs300774, which previously had been identified as a marker for suicide in people with bipolar disorder (BD), also predicts suicide …
Genetic Biomarker Tied to Suicide Risk in Schizophrenia Read more »
July 04, 2017 – Asthma Gene Unique To African Americans. This has been the headline of an article in the Resppiratory/Asthma section of Medical News Today. According to an earlier study, researchers have identified a new gene uniquely linked to …
Asthma: An allelic variant of the PYHIN1 gene is unique to African Americans Read more »
July 02, 2017 – The APP A673T allelic variant of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene which in earlier research has been shown to protect against Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is associated with decreased levels of plasma amyloid β (Aβ), according …
APP A673T carriers: Lower Aβ levels protective against Alzheimer’s Disease? Read more »
June 23, 2017 – According to a new study involving 73 people between 50 and 83 years of age, just published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, more frequent sexual activity can boost brain power (i.e., …
Sexual activity to boost brain power of the elderly Read more »
June 20, 2017 – Insomnia is one of the most common complaint people have about their health. In contrast to common belief and often assumed by the affected sufferers, however, insomnia seems not to be just all in the patients …
Genetic background of insomnia: At least partially Read more »
June 09, 2017 – It’s only a couple of days that the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved for the first time a cancer treatment for any solid tumor, irrespective of the tumor’s original location, as long as the targeted tumor is …
Biomarker-guided Larotrectinib for all cancer types? Read more »
18 May 2017 – According to a paper just published in PLOS One, research team from the University of Zurich found that individuals who agree to openly share their direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing data are apparently most interested in learning more …
Motivation and dangers of sharing personal genetic data in the open space Read more »
May 14, 2017 – Hypertension is a leading cause of global disease, mortality, and disability. Individuals of African descent suffer a disproportionate burden of hypertension and its complications. To date, there has been little information on the possible genetic background (i.e., …
Populations of African descent: New trait loci for hypertension Read more »