The role of pharmacogenomics in drug development
Pharmacogenomics is a biotechnological science that combines the techniques of medicine, pharmacology, and genomics and is concerned with developing drug therapies to compensate for genetic differences in patients which cause varied responses to a single therapeutic regimen. Patient-drug interaction is a complex trait influenced by many genes.
Without a comprehensive knowledge of all the genes that influence drug response, it is difficult to develop genetic tests that could predict a person's response to a particular drug. Pharmacogenomics is a science that examines the inherited variations in genes that dictate drug response and explores the ways these variations can be used to predict the kind of response a patient would have to a drug
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