GENOMIC MEDICINE IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
Abstract
Humans have known for millennia that heredity affects health and disease. But, for most of the medical practitioners; genetics has always been envisioned as an esoteric academic specialty. However, with the completion of Human Genome project on 14th April 2003 and resultant birth of “New Genetics” or Genomic Medicine, genetics is well poised to take the center stage in clinical medicine and we are challenged to find our bearings in a discipline where new operating rules seem to apply.