Personalized medicine: perspectives and opportunities for healthcare in Kazakhstan

Abstract

The increasing development of genetic technology has shown great promise for medicine in the diagnosis, treatment and
prevention of disease. The “Human Genome” project has opened up the possibility of molecular-genetic "passport" for each
patient and to choose effective treatment based on the individual characteristics of its genome. A collection of data on the
presence in the genome of an individual's specific point changes (polymorphisms, mutations), a database of their own DNA,
figuratively called the "genetic passport", and the main tasks of public health. In this review, we discuss the potential applications of genetics in the context of identifying susceptibility to disease and of core public health functions in disease prevention.