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Precision Medicine in Diabetes, Current Research and Future Perspectives
R Franceschi, J Per Medicine, July 28, 2022

Recently the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) have jointly released an expert opinion-based consensus report on precision medicine. The report defines precision diabetes medicine as “an approach to optimize the diagnosis, prediction, prevention, or treatment of diabetes by integrating multidimensional data, accounting for individual differences”, and it is characterized by six categories; precision diagnosis, precision therapeutics, precision prevention, precision treatment, precision prognosis and precision monitoring. Precision medicine in diabetes utilizes the individual’s unique genetic makeup, environment or context data (that can be collected from clinical records, wearable technology, genomics and other ‘omics data) and allows one to appreciate individual characteristics, differences, circumstances and preferences

Measuring biological age using omics data.
Rutledge Jarod et al. Nature reviews. Genetics 2022 6

Spurred by recent advances in high-throughput omics technologies, a new generation of tools to measure biological ageing now enables the quantitative characterization of ageing at molecular resolution. Epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic data can be harnessed with machine learning to build ‘ageing clocks’ with demonstrated capacity to identify new biomarkers of biological ageing.

An integrated multiomic approach as an excellent tool for the diagnosis of metabolic diseases: our first 3720 patients
LS Almeida et al, EJHG, May 25, 2022

To present our experience using a multiomic approach, which integrates genetic and biochemical testing as a first-line diagnostic tool for patients with inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs). A cohort of 3720 patients from 62 countries was tested using a panel including 206 genes with single nucleotide and copy number variant (SNV/CNV) detection, followed by semi-automatic variant filtering and reflex biochemical testing (25 assays). In 1389 patients (37%), a genetic diagnosis was achieved.

An ethical plan for including forcibly displaced persons in omics and digital technology research
F Taki et al, Nature Medicine,May 5, 2022

The use of novel technologies in this population, in addition to routine clinical care, provides an opportunity to reduce health disparities for forcibly displaced individuals. New technologies in healthcare are rapidly expanding, from three-dimensional bioprinting of tissues and organs to onsite portable sequencing to detect disease. Two novel technologies that are especially relevant to displaced persons, which have revolutionized healthcare for the general population in high-income countries, are omics and digital healthcare technology. Each of these can benefit forcibly displaced populations if applied appropriately and responsibly.

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