REVIEW ARTICLE Precision medicine in diabetes prevention, classification and management Fangying Xie1, Juliana CN Chan1,2,3,4,RonaldCWMa1,2,3,4* 1Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, 2Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, 3Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, and 4CUHK-SJTU Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Keywords ABSTRACT Genomics, Pharmacogenetics, Diabetes has become a major burden of healthcare expenditure. Diabetes management Precision medicine following a uniform treatment algorithm is often associated with progressive treatment failure and development of diabetic complications. Recent advances in our understanding *Correspondence of the genomic architecture of diabetes and its complications have provided the frame- Ronald CW Ma work for development of precision medicine to personalize diabetes prevention and man- Tel.: +852-3505-3594 agement. In the present review, we summarized recent advances in the understanding of Fax: +852-2637-3852 the genetic basis of diabetes and its complications. From a clinician’sperspective,we E-mail address: attempted to provide a balanced perspective on the utility of genomic medicine in the
[email protected] field of diabetes. Using genetic information to guide management of monogenic forms J Diabetes Investig 2018; 9: 998–1015 of diabetes represents the best-known examples of genomic medicine for diabetes. Although major strides have been made in genetic research for diabetes, its complications doi: 10.1111/jdi.12830 and pharmacogenetics, ongoing efforts are required to translate these findings into prac- tice by incorporating genetic information into a risk prediction model for prioritization of treatment strategies, as well as using multi-omic analyses to discover novel drug targets with companion diagnostics.