Pharmacogenenomics Flashcards
1
Q
What influences responsiveness to drugs?
A
Pharmacokinetics - fate of the drug in the body
Pharmacodynamics - effects of drugs on the body
2
Q
What is pharmacogenetics?
A
The study of individual gene-drug interactions usually one or two genes that have dominant effect on a drug response
3
Q
What is pharmacogenomics?
A
The study of genomic influence on drug response often using high throughput data
