Molecular Diagnosis: Implications for Ophthalmology

Publication date: Available online 1 December 2015 Source:Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Author(s): James T. Rosenbaum, Cailin H. Sibley, Dongseok Choi, Christina A. Harrington, Stephen R. Planck The effort to subdivide diseases and to individualize therapies based on characteristics of the patient has been labelled precision medicine. Jameson and Longo define precision medicine as “treatments targeted to the needs of individual patients on the basis of genetic, biomarker, phenotypic or psychosocial characteristics that distinguish a given patient from other patients with similar clinical presentations” (Jameson and Longo, 2015). We illustrate how molecular diagnosis can be applied to orbital inflammatory disease to achieve the goals of precision medicine.

Source: Progress in Retinal and Eye Research - December 3, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Source Type: research