Lipidomics – an important ‘omic modality
06 Feb 2017

Lipidomics – an important ‘omic modality

Lipidomics is a new frontier of ‘omics

06 Feb 2017

Lipidomics is a new frontier of ‘omics research and offers much promise for new-generation biomarkers for common complex phenotypes. According to a white paper from the Computational and Structural Biology Laboratory, Division of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Dwarka, India, traditional clinical markers for prognosis of hyperlipidemic individuals are inadequate to forecast or diagnose cardiac events.

The white paper describes attributes from lipidomics that can help identify risk of future cardiac events and other areas of concern. It concludes that additional studies are required to establish the range of normal and disease levels of the identified lipids in different populations and conditions and that lipidomics deserves greater research attention from the biomarker and precision medicine research communities.

You can read an abstract of the report here. Lipidomics is one of the many ‘omics modalities being investigated by Blueprint Bio.

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