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15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is transforming how we study, diagnose and treat cancer.
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Pharmacogenomics is a growing area of genomic medicine that uses a patient's genomic information to help healthcare providers select the medications and dosages that are predicted to work best in each patient.
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​Pharmacogenomics combines the science of how drugs work, called pharmacology, with the science of the human genome, called genomics.​
… (Herceptin). This therapy works only for women whose tumors have a particular genetic profile that leads to … (Tarceva), work much better in lung cancer patients whose tumors have a certain genetic change. On the other hand, … very well in the 40 percent of colon cancer patients whose tumors have a particular genetic change. Pharmacogenomics may …
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Epigenomics is a field in which researchers chart the locations and understand the functions of all the chemical tags that mark the genome.
… of cancer, or to a failure of the immune system to destroy tumors. In a type of brain tumor called glioblastoma, doctors … that counteracts temozolomide. Glioblastoma patients whose tumors have such methylated genes are far more likely to …
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A knockout mouse is a laboratory mouse in which researchers have inactivated an existing gene by replacing it or disrupting it with an artificial piece of DNA.
… codes for a protein that normally suppresses the growth of tumors by arresting cell division. Humans born with mutations … with more than half of human cancers and often lead to tumors in a particular set of tissues. However, when the p53 gene is knocked out in mice, the animals develop tumors in a different array of tissues.Despite these …
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A biological pathway is a series of actions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain product or a change in the cell.
… biological pathways and the genetic profiles of particular tumors, drug developers might be able to focus their … likely to repair the pathways affected in their particular tumors. … How do biological pathways work? … What are some …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is revolutionizing health assessments before birth.
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​Genetic research is creating new ways for people to take action and prevent disease and new ways to treat disease through personalized medicine.​ ​
… in breast cancer. This test looks "estrogen receptors" in tumors. Children with a common type of childhood leukemia can …
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Genetics refers to the study of genes and their roles in inheritance. Genomics refers to the study of all of a person's genes (the genome).
… (Herceptin). This therapy works only for women whose tumors have a particular genetic profile that leads to …