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Role Of The Genomics Revolution In Pharmaceutics, Daniel A. Brazeau, Gayle A. Brazeau
Role Of The Genomics Revolution In Pharmaceutics, Daniel A. Brazeau, Gayle A. Brazeau
Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications
Highlights the examples of Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) and Warfarin as a means of describing some of the problems that are common to many pharmacogenetic cases. The pharmacogenetic literature contains many examples of confusing, or even contradictory, studies that arise due to unknown environmental factors that result in poor outcomes; drugs whose metabolism/transport are affected by multiple genes in multiple pathways; and clinically important genes that have many rare allelic variants with similar phenotypes variation in the frequencies of allelic variants among ethnic groups that mask the role of any one variant. These issues are common to most gene/drug dynamics and …