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Advances in personalized medicine can't come soon enough.



Cytochrome P450 is a family of closely related enzymes that are involved in drug metabolism. There are certain isoforms that have variants with wildly different activity in certain populations. In drug discovery we screen for their involvement and do not like to develop compounds that are metabolized by one of these isoforms because the variation in pharmacokinetics would be too huge. This is kind of the opposite of personalized medicine, making response uniform across the population.

This article gives an overview: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0801/p391.html


> This is kind of the opposite of personalized medicine, making response uniform across the population.

Which is a far more pratical approach.




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