Pharmacogenomics – Racing Towards Personalized Prescriptions

Pharmacogenomics in Pediatric Patients: Towards Personalized Medicine

It is well known that drug responses differ among patients with regard to dose requirements, efficacy, and adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The differences in drug responses are partially explained by genetic variation. This paper highlights some examples of areas in which the different responses (dose, efficacy, and ADRs) are studied in children, including cancer (cisplatin), thrombosis (vitamin...

Pharmacogenomics: a Step towards Personalized Medicine- a Short Review

Pharmacogenetics (PGt) is an established discipline that studies the genetic basis of inter-individual variability in the response to drug therapy and pharmacogenomics (PGx) is the branch of pharmacology which deals with the influence of genetic variation on drug response in patients by correlating gene expression or single-nucleotide polymorphisms with a drug's efficacy or toxicity. The goal o...

Pharmacogenomics: current applications and future prospects towards personalized therapeutics.

Personalized Medicine is more than just a metabolic activity of a person. Pharmacogenomics, pharmacogenetics, pharmacoproteomics, and metabolomics play an important role in the development of personalized medicines. Personalized medicine uses information about a person's genes, proteins, enzyme activities, and cellular environment to diagnose and treat disease, cancer included. A major problem ...

Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics of Colorectal Cancer: Moving Towards Personalized Medicine

Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine

Pharmacogenetics is a newer branch of pharmacological sciences studying the relationship between genetic predisposition of an individual and his ability to metabolize a drug. It helps understand why some individuals respond to drugs and others do not, why some individuals require higher or lower doses to achieve an optimal therapeutic response, and tries to help the physician identify those pat...