DNA sequencing and personalised medicine Flashcards
personalised/precision medicine: list examples of how advances in genomic medicine may lead to personalised/precision medicine, including the treatment of cancer
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purpose of personalised medicine
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help dosage of certain drugs; precision diagnostics, tailored therapeutics, genetic risk assessment
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purpose of gene therapy
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delivery, targeted genome editing, read-through oligonucleotides treat disease caused by premature STOP codon, suppression therapy
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CAR-T cell therapy as example of gene therapy
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treats ALL; modified to recognise cancer cells by CRISPR/car9 (find with guide molecule and replace with healthy DNA); risk of cytokine release syndrome
