Distinct human mutations can alter the effect of medicine

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PERSONALISED MEDICINE

 About one third of all medicine binds to the same type of receptor in the human body. An estimated 3 percent of the population have receptors of this type that are so genetically different that they are predisposed to altered, ineffective or adverse responses to medicine, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge shows.

Press release: Distinct human mutations can alter the effect of medicine

Know your mutations

Period15 Dec 2017

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  • TitleDistinct human mutations can alter the effect of medicine
    Degree of recognitionRegional
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryDenmark
    Date15/12/2017
    DescriptionPERSONALISED MEDICINE About one third of all medicine binds to the same type of receptor in the human body. An estimated 3 percent of the population have receptors of this type that are so genetically different that they are predisposed to altered, ineffective or adverse responses to medicine, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge shows.
    Producer/AuthorMathias Traczyk
    URLhttps://drug.ku.dk/news/news-2017/distinct-human-mutations-can-alter-the-effect-of-medicine/
    PersonsAlexander Sebastian Hauser

Keywords

  • GPCR
  • Big Data
  • Personalised medicine