Advancing personalized medicine: Tailoring drugs to fit a patient's genetic predisposition

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Drug effectiveness on common diseases Not all drugs are equally effective in all patients. Some types of drugs, such as analgesics,
are effective on almost all patients, whereas other types, such as anticancer agents, are effective only on 25% of patients. In working
towards the realization of personalized medicine, it is important to develop ways of using genetic information to prescribe to
patients the most suitable drugs in light of their genetic risk to side effects.