Pharmacogenomics

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NCI: Science that examines inherited variations in genes that dictate drug response and explores the ways such variations can be used to predict whether a person will respond favorably, adversely, or not at all to an investigational product.,NCI: The study of how a person's genes affect the way he or she responds to drugs. Pharmacogenomics is being used to learn ahead of time what the best drug or the best dose of a drug will be for a person.,NCI: The investigation of variations of DNA and RNA characteristics as related to drug response.,MSH: A subdiscipline of PHARMACOGENETICS using GENOMICS and PROTEOMICS methodology to study genetic variability of responses to drugs and drug metabolism (BIOTRANSFORMATION).

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