Foundations of Molecular Medicine

Catalog description

The list of diseases with known molecular basis includes (among others) many inherited disabilities of various types, metabolic disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases. The idea that some diseases are due to genetic causes, a demonstration of which dates back to the early 20th Century, has now been expanded to include the possibility that all recognized human disorders may involve one or more genetic components of the patient. Since the genetic or epigenetic (in the case of identical twins) endowment of every human being on earth is different we must take seriously the concept of personalized medicine.