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. 2015 Feb;14(2):75-6.
doi: 10.1038/nrd4537.

Towards the taxonomy of human disease

Martin Hofmann-Apitius  1 , Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme  2 , Chris Chamberlain  3 , Duncan McHale  3
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Towards the taxonomy of human disease

Martin Hofmann-Apitius et al. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2015 Feb.

Abstract

Consortia have begun to establish 'mechanism-based taxonomies' for inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases that could aid drug development and personalized therapy.

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