This is an emerging field known as pharmacogenetics, which comprises of genetic studies on both the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of treatment response. Recent studies on antidepressant ...

A pharmacogenetics pilot within general practice resulted in medicines changes for 25% of participating patients so far.

Nonsynonymous polymorphism: A polymorphism in the coding region that changes amino acid. Pharmacogenetics: A study of genetic causes of individual variations in drug response. In this review ...

This complexity makes it much more difficult for researchers to identify the specific connections between pharmacogenetics and race/ethnicity. In a recent study, Tang et al. (2005) analyzed ...

The Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics research groups at the Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program (INDIVIDRUG), University of Helsinki, work to identify key factors affecting drug ...