"Precision medicine, sometimes called personalized medicine, is an approach for protecting health and treating a disease by taking into account a person’s genes, behaviors, and the environment. Interventions are tailored to individuals or groups, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach in which everyone receives the same care.” (CDC) Obtaining a whole genome sequence at a very affordable cost and within a span of days is a milestone that the healthcare fraternity is looking forward to. Empowering clinicians with genetic details will open avenues in targeted therapy and personalized medicine, one that is guided by the linkages of DNA signatures with specific diseases or to responses of the human body to specific drugs.
The rate of metabolism varies for every individual; therefore, drug breakdown or metabolism is faster in some people. In such individuals, the drug is active for a…
