Pharmacogenomics may be one of the most important current discoveries in medicine and is the study of the role of the genome in drug response.
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Such approaches promise the advent of precision medicine and even personalized medicine, in which drugs and drug combinations are optimized for narrow subsets of patients or even for each individual\'s unique genetic makeup.
Pharmacogenomics also attempts to eliminate the trial-and-error method of prescribing, allowing physicians to take into consideration their patient\'s genes, the functionality of these genes, and how this may affect the efficacy of the patient\'s current or future treatments.
Through the utilization of pharmacogenomics, it is hoped that pharmaceutical drug treatments can deviate from what is dubbed as the "one-dose-fits-all" approach.
Pharmacogenomics aims to develop rational means to optimize drug therapy, with respect to the patients\' genotype, to ensure maximum efficacy with minimal adverse effects.
Although both terms relate to drug response based on genetic influences, pharmacoGenetics focuses on single drug-gene interactions, while pharmacogenomics encompasses a more genome-wide association approach, incorporating genomics and epiGenetics while dealing with the effects of multiple genes on drug response.
The term pharmacogenomics is often used interchangeably with pharmacogenetics.
It deals with the influence of acquired and inherited genetic variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination) and pharmacodynamics (effects mediated through a drug\'s biological targets).
Pharmacogenomics analyzes how the genetic makeup of an individual affects their response to drugs.
The name reflects its combining of pharmacology and genomics.
Pharmacogenomics may be one of the most important current discoveries in medicine and is the study of the role of the genome in drug response
