BMC Medical Genomics is calling for submissions to our collection on "personalised medicine and gene therapy". Personalised medicine aims at improving both diagnostics and treatment outcomes for patients, with more accurate diagnostics and very specific treatment for the conditions diagnosed. Research in the genetic causes of diseases provides increasing insight into causes and pathways of disease. With a better understanding of genetic causes and pathways, more accurate and personalised diagnostics and treatment options for a variety of different conditions can be developed. The profound understanding of the genetic underpinnings of disease enables highly specific treatment options such as gene therapy.
This collection welcomes submissions of research on personalised diagnostics and treatments, including gene therapy. For diagnostic tools, especially bioinformatics studies on biomarkers, the potential of clinical applications should be demonstrated by validation in independent clinical cohorts.
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