Sentences with phrase «particular characteristics of their disease»

This discovery could eventually help orient patients towards more effective treatment by considering the particular characteristics of their disease.

Not exact matches

Below we explore some of the key ethical and social considerations, as well as legal and policy considerations, that are relevant to host genomic discoveries, followed by particular examples of ELSI issues that may arise if we apply genomic discoveries to four specific infectious diseases that differ in a number of ELSI - relevant characteristics (Table1).

Then we briefly describe some of the epidemiologic characteristics and recent genomic advances associated with four particular infectious diseases - Ebola, pandemic influenza, hepatitis B and tuberculosis - that have large - scale public health consequences but differ in terms of ease of transmission, chronicity, severity, preventability and treatability, factors which affect a range of ELSI issues.

The remaining sessions follow the form of a disease based course focusing on basic, clinical and translational issues in particular malignancies, providing an overview of disease characteristics.

By detailing certain features of cells and tissues, such as methylation patterns, protein levels and other characteristics, Dr. Volpi said that the new studies will «help paint a clearer picture of how genomic variation leads to particular diseases.»

When most of us think of genes, we think of the ones that determine particular characteristics such as whether we have brown hair, blue eyes, or long legs, or those that predict specific childhood diseases.