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Drug Therapy
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Volume 348:538-549 February 6, 2003 Number 6
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Pharmacogenomics — Drug Disposition, Drug Targets, and Side Effects
William E. Evans, Pharm.D., and Howard L. McLeod, Pharm.D.

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It is well recognized that different patients respond in different ways to the same medication. These differences are often greater among members of a population than they are within the same person at different times (or between monozygotic twins).1 The existence of large population differences with small intrapatient variability is consistent with inheritance as a determinant of drug response; it is estimated that genetics can account for 20 to 95 percent of variability in drug disposition and effects.2 Although many nongenetic factors influence the effects of medications, including age, organ function, concomitant therapy, drug interactions, and the nature of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Genetic Polymorphisms Influencing Drug Disposition

Drug Metabolism

Drug Transporters

Genetic Polymorphism of Drug Targets

Genetic Polymorphisms with Indirect Effects on Drug Response

Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Optimizing Drug Therapy

Challenges for the Future


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From St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Tennessee Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, Memphis (W.E.E.); and Washington University Medical School, St. Louis (H.L.M.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Evans at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 N. Lauderdale St., Memphis, TN 38101-0318, or at william.evans@stjude.org.


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N Engl J Med 2003; 348:2041-2043, May 15, 2003. Correspondence

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