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Nature Medicine 14, 369 - 370 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0408-369

Getting personal about treating HIV

James D Neaton1 & H Clifford Lane2

  1. James D. Neaton is in the Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 2221 University Avenue Southeast, Room 200, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA.
  2. H. Clifford Lane is at the US National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 4-1479, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. e-mail: jim@ccbr.umn.edu

Genetic variants have been identified that may predict the response to HIV treatment (pages 413–420).

Personalized medicine, in which therapy is based on patient-specific information, is a recent trend in medicine that has been heralded by the sequencing of the human genome. For example, the selection of antiretrovirals for the treatment of people with HIV is currently tailored to the patient based on the genotype of the virus.