Why rare disease needs precision medicine-and precision medicine needs rare disease.
editorial · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 35243424.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100530 and PMC identifier 8861960.
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Abstract
With one in ten suffering from one of 10,000 rare diseases, precision medicine opens a path toward identifying therapies for rare patients. Conversely, it is rare patients-through their collective experience and the knowledge captured in their genetics-who open the path toward identifying therapies for common patients.
Medical subject headings
- Precision Medicine
- Rare Diseases