Purpose: The basic concepts of pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenetic study approaches, factors to consider when applying pharmacogenetic discoveries to patient care, and potential roles for pharmacists in ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, healthcare providers and researchers noticed that some patients with HIV (approximately 5%) experienced a severe hypersensitivity reaction to the drug abacavir, in ...

As pharmacogenetics is integrated into routine clinical practice, both patients and healthcare professionals will need the background knowledge to make educated treatment decisions. Healthcare ...

Thiopurines remain integral to the treatment paradigms in both acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The field of pharmacogenetics has revealed that genetic ...

Pharmacogenetics, although in its infancy, has the potential to help predict how individual patients will respond to a given drug. Pharmacogenetics (or pharmacogenomics) is the study of "how genes ...