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Race, ethnicity, ancestry, and pharmacogenetics.
The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York - 1 Jan 2000
Urban Thomas J
Abstract excerpt
Pharmacogenetics is the study of how genetic variation influences the response to drugs. The concepts of race, ethnicity, and ancestry have long had a strong influence on pharmacogenetic discovery and on our understanding of population-level differences in drug response. The primary goal of pharmacogenetics, however, is to identify the individual genetic determinants of drug activity so that therapy can be...
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