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

    Keywords

    • GPCR
    • Big Data
    • Personalised medicine