July 26, 2019 – “Blockchains for secure digitized medicine”. This is the title of a very interesting and important article in the Journal of Personalised Medine (JPM) as of May 28, 2019. Blockchain as an emerging technology (particularly around the hype …
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January 26, 2019 – Pharmacogenomic approaches are increasingly revealing newly identified genes and genetic variants that are at the base of remarkable inter-individual pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic variation of novel direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC). Lately, DOACs have shown an upward prescribing trend due …
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May 13, 2018 – Researchers have uncovered 17 genetic variants linked to different depression-related phenotypes in a large genome-wide association study, including variants near genes involved in neurotransmission and synapse function. The first author of the study, David Howard, Center …
November 20, 2009 – Two independent studies which tried to uncover genetic associations behind Parkinson’s disease have been published in the latest issue of Nature Genetics. They are the largest studies of this type to date and involved more than …