Compared to other enzyme families such as cytochromes P450, pharmacogenetic studies of human sulfotransferases (SULTs) in relation to drug response are fairly limited. Previously, human platelets have ...

The age of pharmacogenetics has arrived. Pharmacists are taking notice and using this information to help determine which patients require specific treatments, to guide dosage selection, and to ...

From the perspective of current and future patients, the development of the field of pharmacogenetics is of immense interest. The encouraging vision that is now being ...

Pharmacogenetics is an area of research encompassing a variety of different goals and applications (for an overview see Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1). Basic research interests include for example ...

On average, a drug on the market works effectively for only 50% of the people who take it. Would you want to prevent a potential adverse drug effect or even toxicity through a simple test? It's not ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a personal genomics test that people can use to find if they metabolize drugs quickly or slowly. The agency said Wednesday that it had approved the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with AML who had a low ACS10 genetics score had worse survival outcomes than those with a high score.

Technical hurdles to the wide-spread use of genetic data in humans are disappearing. The cost of sequencing an entire human genome is sinking to around $1,000. Commercial companies are offering ...

Mutational Signature and Transcriptomic Classification Analyses as the Decisive Diagnostic Tools for a Cancer of Unknown Primary The Michigan Oncology Sequencing (MI-Oncoseq) program at The University ...

Pharmacogenetics (also known as pharmacogenomics) is defined as the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs. This field combines pharmacology (the science of drugs) and genomics (the ...