http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1164 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/biostatisticians-crunch-data-vital-aids-research-genetics <!--paging_filter--><p>Broadly defined, statistical genetics is the development of methods to analyze DNA. In recent years, the term has been more specifically applied to gene mapping, or the search for locations of genes related to diseases, and to the analysis of drug therapies. Statistical genetics plays a significant role in what some experts predict to be the future of pharmaceutical therapy -- individualized medicine. "The idea is that you would monitor a patient regularly to gain a sense of when a drug treatment has become ineffective," explained Stephen Lagakos, chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/biostatisticians-crunch-data-vital-aids-research-genetics">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:18:17 -0400 70652986 3098 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu