AUTHOR=Emmert-Streib Frank 

TITLE=Personalized medicine: Has it started yet? A reconstruction of the early history

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Genetics

VOLUME=3

YEAR=2013

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2012.00313

DOI=10.3389/fgene.2012.00313

ISSN=1664-8021

ABSTRACT=<p>Within the last few years the field personalized medicine entered the stage. Accompanied with great hopes and expectations it is believed that this field may have the potential to revolutionize medical and clinical care by utilizing genomics information about the individual patients themselves. In this paper, we reconstruct the early footprints of personalized medicine as reflected by information retrieved from PubMed and Google Scholar. That means we are providing a data-driven perspective of this field to estimate its current status and potential problems.</p>