A need for a whole-istic functional genomics approach in complex human diseases arthritis.docVIP

Arthritis Research Therapy Vol 5 No 2 Amin Commentary A need for a ‘whole-istic functional genomics’ approach in complex human diseases: arthritis Ashok R Amin Hospital for Joint Diseases/NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA Correspondence: Ashok R Amin (e-mail: ashok.amin@) Received: 22 November 2002 Accepted: 8 January 2003 Published: 28 January 2003 Arthritis Res Ther 2003, 5:76-79 (DOI 10.1186/ar626) ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1478-6354; Online ISSN 1478-6362) Abstract ‘Genomic tools’, such as gene/protein chips, single nucleotide polymorphism and haplotype analyse