How is our knowledge of genetics used in medicine?
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Knowledge of a patient's genetic makeup can allow physicians to minimize disease risk through preventive medicine and conventional drug therapies. A more novel treatment is gene therapy, which compensates for the defective gene by providing an exogenous functional copy.
Medical genetics is any application of genetic principles to medical practice. This includes studies of inheritance, mapping disease genes, diagnosis and treatment, and genetic counseling. Pharmacogenetics is the study of how drugs affect the body with respect to specific genetic backgrounds.
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