[Challenges of personalized medicine for cystic fibrosis]

Arch Pediatr. 2015 Jul;22(7):778-86. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2015.04.015. Epub 2015 May 26.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Personalized medicine, or P4 medicine for "Personalized", "Predictive", "Preventive" and "Participatory", is currently booming for cystic fibrosis, with the development of therapies targeting specific CFTR mutations. The various challenges of personalized medicine applied to cystic fibrosis issues are discussed in this paper.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Cystic Fibrosis / genetics
  • Cystic Fibrosis / therapy*
  • Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator / genetics
  • Humans
  • Mutation
  • Precision Medicine*

Substances

  • Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator