Revill Peter
Prous Science, Barcelona, Spain.
Drug News Perspect. 2007 Sep;20(7):475-9.
There has been a recent spate of genome-wide association studies reporting new associations between sequence variations on the human genome and common diseases such as diabetes. These associations can lead to a better understanding of the etiology of the disease, help with diagnosis, predict drug response and identify potential new targets for therapy. Many of the recent findings were reported at the Nature Genetics/Wellcome Trust conference on the Genomics of Common Diseases, held July 7-10, 2007, at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and have recently been published. This meeting summary focuses on some of the recently described associations between genomic variation and common diseases.
最近有大量全基因组关联研究报告了人类基因组序列变异与糖尿病等常见疾病之间的新关联。这些关联有助于更好地理解疾病的病因，辅助诊断，预测药物反应并确定潜在的新治疗靶点。许多最新研究结果在2007年7月7日至10日于英国剑桥韦尔科姆基金会会议中心举行的“常见疾病基因组学”的《自然遗传学》/韦尔科姆基金会会议上进行了报告，并且最近已经发表。本会议总结聚焦于一些最近描述的基因组变异与常见疾病之间的关联。
