There is renewed interest in the difficulties of interpreting the role of missense variants identified in large scale medical resequencing projects made possible by next generation sequencing technologies. To assist in ascribing a role in disease causation for these variants, a combination of statistics, bioinformatic tools and, ultimately, functional studies, will be needed. Missense variants identified in highly penetrant Mendelian disorders where co-segregation studies can be performed provide a model to explore the utility of these tools.
WHO estimates that half of all patients worldwide are non-adherent to their prescribed medication. The consequences of poor adherence can be catastrophic, on both the individual and population level.
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