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Promises and challenges of pharmacogenetics: an overview of study design, methodological and statistical issues

Abstract

Pharmacogenetics is the study of inherited variation in drug response. The goal of pharmacogenetics is to develop novel ways of maximizing drug efficacy and minimizing toxicity for individual patients. Personalized medicine has the potential to allow for a patient's genetic information to predict optimal dosage for a drug with a narrow therapeutic index, to select the most appropriate pharmacological agent for a given patient and to develop …

Authors

Ross S; Anand SS; Joseph P; Paré G

Journal

JRSM Cardiovascular Disease, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1–13

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

4 2012

DOI

10.1258/cvd.2012.012001

ISSN

2048-0040