Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305251052
Author: Michael Cummings
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10, Problem 22QP
Summary Introduction

To explain:  The reasons behind variant responses to drugs and the reasons for these responses acting as heritable traits.

Introduction: Pharmacogenetics is the study of the differences that arise genetically in different individuals towards the same drug molecule. Pharmacogenomics is concerned with the development of drug molecules that are tailored according to the genetic makeup of an individual. Both these fields about drugs play an important role in studies on drugs.

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