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Textbook of Personalized Medicine
BookID 187268_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 24/08/2009
Kewal K. Jain
Textbook of Personalized
Medicine
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Kewal K. Jain
Jain PharmaBiotech
Blaesiring 7
4057 Basel
Switzerland
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ISBN 978-1-4419-0768-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0769-1
DOI -1-4419-0769-1
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Dedicated to Barack Obama,
President of United States who introduced
the bill titled “Genomics and Personalized
Medicine Act of 2006” in the US
Senate in 2006
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Preface
Personalized medicine, which simply means selection of treatment best suited for
an individual, involves integration and translation of several new technologies in
clinical care of patients. The scope is much broader than indicated by the term
genomic medicine, because many non-genomic factors are take