CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN COLORECTAL SURGICAL PRACTICE

Great advances have been performed in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of these diseases but the search of specific protective or risk biomarkers is an unsolved field. Since completion of the human genome project a rapid progress in genetics and bioinformatics have enabled the development of multiple tools as well as a large public databases, which include genetic and genomic data linked to clinical health data. The scientific revolution represented by the description of the human genome was largely facilitated by the use of DNA microarray technology, which made it possible to build a catalog of all genes within a given organism. The human genome project found...