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Published online 15 October 1998 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news981015-4
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A drug to suit your genotype
Increasingly detailed knowledge of the ways in which people differ from one another genetically could be exploited to tailor drugs to individual needs, side-stepping harmful side-effects that might have a genetic basis. Or could it? The burgeoning topic of ‘pharmacogenomics’ inspires vivid passions in the pharmaceutical industry, as a debate in the October issue of Nature Biotechnology makes clear.
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