The promise and challenges of genomics-informed periodontal disease diagnoses.

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Recent advances in human genomics and the advent of molecular medicine have catapulted our ability to characterize human and health and disease. The review summarizes the current evidence of association between genomics and periodontal diseases, including the current state of knowledge that approximately a third of the population variance of periodontitis may be attributable to genetic variation and the management of several monogenic forms of the disease can be augmented by knowledge of the und...

🔑 Key Findings

• Scientists and healthcare practitioners can now leverage information on genetic variation and gene expression at the tissue or even individual cell level, and an enormous potential exists to refine diagnostic categories, assess risk in unaffected individuals, and optimize disease management among those affected.
• This review investigates the progress made in the domains of molecular medicine and genomics as they relate to periodontology.
• The review summarizes the current evidence of association between genomics and periodontal diseases, including the current state of knowledge that approximately a third of the population variance of periodontitis may be attributable to genetic variation and the management of several monogenic forms of the disease can be augmented by knowledge of the underlying genetic cause.

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