U.S. doctors will start working out what drug or therapy works best for a patient using their genetic code, it emerged today.
The revolutionary step of personalising their care will be taken by mapping a patient's entire genetic code in advance to make prescriptions more effective. It is hoped thousands will take part in the landmark project run by the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Volunteers will have all 23,000 genes in their genetic code sequenced and stored with their medical records from early next year. It is part of an ambitious move towards an era of proactive genomics that puts modern genetics at the centre of patient care.
The trial reflects a growing trend in medicine to use genetic information to identify those patients who will benefit most from a drug and those who will respond better to an alternative.
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