Clinomics
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Clinomics is the study of -omics data along with its associated clinical data. The term
-omics generally refers to a study of biology. As an example, genomics is the study of the entire genome
of an organism and was the first -omics term.
As personalized medicine advances, clinomics will be a bridge between basic biological data and its effect on human health. As an example, there have been studies of the genes expressed in certain cancer tissues as a way of classification of the cancer and the putative best form of treatment.
Already we know that certain genes such as BRCA1 are associated with a higher probability of developing breast cancer. Clinomics takes the next step by looking at not only the genetics of the patient, but also such data as
proteins
associated with a patient and a disease.
References
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