Personalized Medicine (Biotechnology and Society)

Required Reading/Viewing
We'll discuss two main examples of personalized medicine: a longitudinal omics study of a single individual and tailoring treatment to the genetics of an individual patient or a patient's cancer.

// News article about personalize omics study. // Scientific article about an integrative personalized omics profile of a single individual over time. // Article describing several personalized drug treatments. // Article discussing issues with using whole-genome data collected from patients.
 * 1) Marchant2011 Cohen, J. "Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks." Science Now March 16, 2012. Read Article
 * 1) Chen2012 pmid=22424236
 * 1) Salari2012 pmid=22659199
 * 1) Ormond2010 pmid=20434765

Additional Reading/Viewing
// $99 Personalized genotyping service. // Company for "genome guided medicine". // Organization for public sharing of genome, trait, and disease data. // Article describing the identification of anonymous patients from genetic data. // Article describing use of genetic information to tailor colon cancer therapy to an individual.
 * 1) 23andme 23andme Company Website.
 * 1) Personalis Personalis Company Website.
 * 1) PGP Personal Genomes Project Organization Website.
 * 1) Gymrek2013 pmid=23329047
 * 1) Parsons2013 pmid=23636143