Obesity Personalized Medicine

SNPs allow us to pinpoint the genes involved in traits and diseases such as asthma, hypertension, obesity, cancers, and diabetes. They will enable both the localization of genes and gene families as well as the development of personalized medicine. 

And human gut microbial populations are known to vary. Recent work at Washington University in St. Louis has shown that the relative proportion of the two main groups of bacteria in the gut, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes, correlates with obesity in man and metabolic potential in mouse. " More work can be expected along these lines, and if major correlations with drug metabolism are proven, the day may come when clinical medicine gets still more personal. 

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