Can medical genetics and evolutionary biology inspire drug target identification?

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New strategies for target identification are urgently needed to tackle the current productivity challenges in drug discovery. By examining successful human drug targets, it can be seen that approximately 50% are associated with genetic disorders. Further analysis shows that these successfully targeted genes share some common evolutionary features, which strongly suggests that evolutionary information can help...

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