Sunday, March 2, 2008
What is pharmacogenomics?
Pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic inheritance affects the body's response to drugs. The term comes from the words pharmacology and genomics and is thus the intersection of pharmaceuticals and genetics.
Pharmacogenomics holds the promise that drugs might one day be tailor-made for individuals and adapted to each person's own genetic makeup. Environment, diet, age, lifestyle, and state of health all can influence a person's response to medicines, but understanding an individual's genetic makeup is thought to be the key to creating personalized drugs with greater efficacy and safety.
Pharmacogenomics combines traditional pharmaceutical sciences such as biochemistry with annotated knowledge of genes, proteins, and single nucleotide polymorphisms.
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- Artificial Limbs see Amputees
- Ataxia see Movement Disorders
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- Broken Bones see Fractures
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- Coccyx see Tailbone Disorders
- Connective Tissue Disorders
- Costochondritis see Cartilage Disorders
- Cramps see Muscle Cramps
- Cubital Tunnel Syndrome see Elbow Injuries and Disorders
- Charley Horse see Muscle Cramps
- Chondrocalcinisis see Gout
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- Degenerative Joint Disease see Osteoarthritis
- Dermatomyositis see Myositis
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- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy see Muscular Dystrophy
- Dupuytren's Contracture see Connective Tissue Disorders
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- Dyskinesia see Movement Disorders
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- Ewing's Sarcoma see Bone Cancer
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- Ganglion Cyst see Wrist Injuries and Disorders
- Giant Cell Arteritis see Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Gout
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- Hip Replacement
- Hypermobility Syndrome see Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Hyperuricemia see Gout
- Infantile Paralysis see Polio and Post-Polio Syndrome
- Intermittent Claudication see Leg Injuries and Disorders
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Knee Injuries and Disorders
- Knee Replacement
- Kyphosis see Spinal Diseases
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- Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease see Osteonecrosis
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- Low Back Pain see Back Pain
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- Myositis
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- Osteoarthritis
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- Spondylolisthesis see Spinal Diseases
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- Still's Disease see Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Tailbone Disorders
- Tardive Dyskinesia see Movement Disorders
- Temporal Arteritis see Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Tendinitis
- Tennis Elbow see Elbow Injuries and Disorders
- Thumb Injuries see Hand Injuries and Disorders
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- Whiplash see Neck Injuries and Disorders
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- Cooley's Anemia see Thalassemia
- Coronary Arteriosclerosis see Coronary Artery Disease
- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft see Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Coronary Artery Disease
- CPR
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- Edema
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- Folate see Anemia
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- Insulin Resistance see Metabolic Syndrome
- Intermittent Claudication see Peripheral Vascular Diseases
- Iron Deficiency Anemia see Anemia
- Irregular Heartbeat see Arrhythmia
- Kawasaki Disease see Vasculitis
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- Mini-Stroke see Transient Ischemic Attack
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- Myocardial Infarction see Heart Attack
- Open Heart Surgery see Heart Surgery
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- Pain, Chest see Angina
- Peripheral Vascular Diseases
- Phlebitis see Thrombophlebitis
- Primary Pulmonary Hypertension see Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Raynaud's Disease
- Shy-Drager Syndrome see Low Blood Pressure
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Spider Veins see Varicose Veins
- Stroke
- Syndrome X (Cardiac) see Angina
- Syndrome X (Metabolic) see Metabolic Syndrome
- Tachycardia see Arrhythmia
- Thalassemia
- Thrombocytopenia see Bleeding Disorders
- Thrombophlebitis
- TIA see Transient Ischemic Attack
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Triglycerides
- Valvular Heart Diseases see Heart Valve Diseases
- Varicose Veins
- Vascular Diseases
- Vasculitis
- Veins see Varicose Veins ; Vascular Diseases
- Venous Thrombosis see Thrombophlebitis
- von Willebrand Disease see Bleeding Disorders
- Wegener's Granulomatosis
Drugs and Medicines
Drugs and Medicines
Find drug information by condition.
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- Abnormal Heart Rhythms
- Acid Indigestion
- Acne
- Allergies
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Angina
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Drugs
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C
D
F
H
- Hair Loss
- Hay Fever
- Headaches
- Heart Attack
- Heartburn
- Herpes
- High Blood Pressure
- High Cholesterol
- HIV Infection
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