Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Suite 168, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2010 May;36(2):259-70. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2010.03.002.
The purpose of this article is to place these genetic discoveries in the context of current and future therapeutic strategies for patients with RA. More specifically, this article focuses on (1) a brief overview of genetic studies, (2) human genetics as an approach to identify the Achilles heel of disease pathways, (3) humans as the model organism for functional studies of human mutations, (4) pharmacogenetic studies to gain insight into the mechanism of action of drugs, and (5) next-generation patient registries to enable large-scale genotype-phenotype studies.
本文旨在将这些遗传发现置于当前和未来 RA 患者的治疗策略背景下。更具体地说,本文重点介绍了(1)遗传研究的简要概述,(2)人类遗传学作为识别疾病途径的阿喀琉斯之踵的方法,(3)人类作为人类突变功能研究的模式生物,(4)药物遗传学研究以深入了解药物作用机制,以及(5)下一代患者登记处,以实现大规模的基因型-表型研究。