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. 2018 Jun 22:9:211.
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00211. eCollection 2018.

Time Heals all Wounds- but Scars Remain. Can Personalized Medicine Help?

Saeid Amini-Nik  1   2   3
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Time Heals all Wounds- but Scars Remain. Can Personalized Medicine Help?

Saeid Amini-Nik. Front Genet. .
No abstract available

Keywords: genomics; keloids; mesenchymal stem cell; personalized medicine; precision medicine; proteomics; scar; skin scar.

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The goal of Precision Scar Medicine is to treat each patient with the best possible therapeutics. Patients with skin injuries often have different outcomes. The precision scar medicine approach provides tools to classify patients with skin injury into delicate subclasses by biomarkers that may predict responses to a particular therapeutics. Without personalized medicine (Left), a “green patient” may receive brown medications which have no benefit in his scar management. Conversely, the “green patient” in the right will receive green therapeutics (that is, his biomarkers are associated with the best outcome with green medication) which has the maximal effect on scar prevention/management for this specific patient. The stratification methods derived from the integration of large amounts of data to find individualizing biomarkers. Additionally, this stratification may be used for the patient before elective surgeries to provide personalized preventive approaches to prevent and manage skin scars.
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