Every person is different in multiple ways, including in what they eat, the types of stress they experience, exposure to environmental factors, their genes, and factors other than changes in DNA that alter gene expression.
Many of these variations play a role in health and disease. Personalized medicine allows your healthcare provider to focus his or her attention on what makes you “you,” instead of depending on generalities.
Personalized medicine uses each person’s unique combination of genetic, clinical, and environmental information.
It allows accurate predictions about a patient’s:
