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A Quattrocchi1, Z Del Fante1, N Di Fazio1
1Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Personalized medicine is an emerging approach to medicine that applies scientific knowledge to predict individual susceptibility to certain pathologies and to identify their response to pharmacological treatments. The aim of the study is to analyze the ethical implications of the use of personalized medicine in the prevention of psychiatric disorders, through the study of specific genetic variations and epigenetic modifications. However, the use of technologies aimed at studying the human genome, in order to prevent these pathologies, cause many bioethical questions.
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