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1Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biological Sciences, Krone EBB, Atlanta, USA. greg.gibson@biology.gatech.edu.
Abstract:
Personalized medicine promises to advance and improve health by targeting the right medication to the right person at the right time, thus maximizing the proportion of treated patients who achieve an effective response to therapy. This Comment article makes the complementary argument that equally important benefits will derive from negative prediction, namely by identifying those individuals who are either not actually in need of, or unlikely to respond to, a drug. Reduction of unnecessary prescription could conceivably save health-care systems many billions of dollars with very little detrimental impact on outcomes.
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