Mathematical models target disease with drug choice based on your DNA
July 19, 2013
Medicines that are personally tailored to your DNA are becoming a reality, thanks to the work of U.S. and Chinese scientists who developed statistical models to predict which drug is best for a specific individual with a specific disease.
“Traditional medicine doesn’t consider mechanistic drug response,” said Rongling Wu, director of the Center for Statistical Genetics and professor of public health sciences within the division of biostatistics and bioinformatics at thePenn State College of Medicine. “We want to look at how an individual person responds to an individual drug by deriving and using sophisticated mathematical models, such as differential equations.”
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