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Personalized medicine: Has it started yet? A reconstruction of the early history

2013; Frontiers Media; Volume: 3; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3389/fgene.2012.00313

1664-8021

Frank Emmert‐Streib,

Gene expression and cancer classification

Within the last few years the field personalized medicine entered the stage. Accompanied with great hopes and expectations it is believed that this field may have the potential to revolutionize medical and clinical care by utilizing genomics information about the individual patients themselves. In this paper, we reconstruct the early footprints of personalized medicine as reflected by information retrieved from PubMed and Google Scholar. That means we are providing a data-driven perspective of this field to estimate its current status and potential problems.