Pharmacogenetics of opioids and genetics of pain perception offer new insights into the mechanisms of pain and differences in an individual patient's responses to pain medications, such as opioids ...

Pharmacogenomics. 2012;13(1):71-81. Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic disorder occurring in approximately 2% of the population. Between 40 and 60% of patients are nonresponders to ...

The scientific terms for these two determinants are pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and both are critical considerations in the field of pharmacogenomics. Pharmacokinetics encompasses four ...

Dr. Swen is one of the primary investigators of the “Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics” project (www.upgx.eu). U-PGx aims to implement pharmacogenetics across 7 European sites by genotyping 8,100 ...

Hemant Tiwari, PhD Dr. Tiwari's current research interests include Genetic Linkage Analysis, Disequilibrium Mapping, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Copy number variations (CNVs) Structural ...

While some genetic tests can provide yes-no answers and a clear course of clinical action, that’s not always the case in pharmacogenetics, said Minoli Perera, a pharmacogenomics researcher at ...

The Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics research groups at the Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program (INDIVIDRUG), University of Helsinki, work to identify key factors affecting drug ...

This course will examine the application of drug-gene testing to commonly prescribed medications. The potential of pharmacogenomic-led prescribing to enhance patient outcomes, reduce the incidence of ...

Elective core units: Application of Genomics in Infectious Disease; Genomics of Common and Rare Inherited Diseases; Molecular Pathology of Cancer and Application in Cancer Diagnosis, Screening, and ...

Jun J. Yang, PhD, St. Jude Departments of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Oncology and first co-authors Zhenhua Li, PhD, and Satoshi Yoshimura, MD, PhD, demonstrated that treatment and ...

The chemotherapy drugs 5-FU and capecitabine could harm or kill you if you have a variant in the DPYD gene. Request genetic testing before you take these drugs.