BeadArray™-based solutions for enabling the promise of pharmacogenomics

A “one-size-fits-all” approach continues to characterize today's healthcare paradigm. But emergent rules, information, genomics tools, and economics are driving a fundamental and inevitable shift to a more personalized world of medicine. In this new world, the interests of insurers, regulators,...

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Published in:BioTechniques
Main Authors: Jian-Bing Fan, Sean X. Hu, William C. Craumer, David L. Barker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2005-10-01
Online Access:https://www.future-science.com/doi/10.2144/000112047
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Summary:A “one-size-fits-all” approach continues to characterize today's healthcare paradigm. But emergent rules, information, genomics tools, and economics are driving a fundamental and inevitable shift to a more personalized world of medicine. In this new world, the interests of insurers, regulators, suppliers, healthcare providers, and most important, patients, will have converged. The new goal will be the right treatment for the right individual at the right time. In this world, personalized medicine, through pharmacogenomics (PGx), will be the new healthcare paradigm. We will briefly examine healthcare trends and current opportunities for PGx development. We will then demonstrate how microarray technologies—among them bead-based approaches—have emerged as a key enablerfor bringing home the promise of PGx.
ISSN:0736-6205
1940-9818