Pharmacogenetics is the study of how genes affect an individual’s response to drugs. It is an area of science that is flourishing
long appreciated that the same dose of medicine will not necessarily have the same effect on different patients. Today they are able to predict how patients will respond to hundreds of drugs. One of the ways in which people differ biologically is in how they metabolise drugs, a process largely dependent on enzymes in the liver that can vary a lot from person to person, and which are genetically determined.
The study of how genes affect an individual’s response to drugs is known as pharmacogenetics, and it is flourishing. Thein Britain is looking at applying pharmacogenetic tests to the treatment of 65 different medical conditions within the next few years.
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