India is playing a major role in raising the standard of personalised medicine across the world, especially developing countries.
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Though the idea of personalized therapeutics based on individual variation has existed for more than 4,000 years in India's traditional practice of Ayurveda medicine, the country has created a new national databank of genetic samples from about 15,000 unrelated individuals from its diverse geographic and linguistic subpopulations.
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The Parsis, thought to be genetically homogenous, are feared to be at risk owing to their religious prohibition of marriage outside of the community.
The case study was a part of a major research led by researchers from the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health (MRC), Toronto.
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Such efforts may lead to potential new therapies for diseases like cancer and central nervous system disorders, which can be used to directly benefit the Parsi population, with an additional potential to be marketed globally where appropriate.
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If the non-responder cases can be explained by genomic variation, better-tailored treatments could potentially be devised, says the research paper.
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"Benefits of this emerging science cannot be an exclusive luxury reserved for wealthier industrialized countries. Instead, it must be universally advanced by developed and developing countries alike to prevent an increased widening of already huge difference in global health care quality," she said.
Prof. Abdallah S. Daar, the project's principal investigator, a professor of public health sciences at the University of Toronto and co-director of the MRC's Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy, says: "The world has reached an historic moment on the path to genomic medicine - the point where theory is about to be translated into practice."
He adds: "Developing countries cannot rely on the altruism of western economic interests to address specific health needs of their populations. And purchasing health products from the West will only contribute to continued dependency of developing countries on weathier northern neighbours."
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