The Emerging Field of Noncoding RNAs and Their Importance  in Pediatric Diseases

Dr Barton Childs' landmark 1999 text, Genetic Medicine – A Logic of Disease, led to the development of a new curriculum at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine entitled “Genes to Society.”1 A core part of contemporary medical school and pediatric residency training is individualized medicine. Trainees are now being equipped for an era of personalized, “precision” medicine. Childs said that, in the next century, medicine will be focused on the treatment of individuals rather than disease. This raises the question of how different are individuals at the genomic level? Early after the discovery of the genetic code, it was recognized that some 3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms could be used to distinguish individuals, based on their location within our unique DNA.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Supplement Source Type: research