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Ethnopsychopharmacology and pharmacogenomics.
Advances in psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2013
Silva Hernán
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Significant differences in response to psychotropic drugs are observed in various ethnic and cultural groups. Ethnopsychiatry is the study of how culture and genetic differences in human groups determine and influence the response to psychotropic agents. Meanwhile, pharmacogenomics studies the influence of genetic variations in the response of patients to different drugs. Pharmacogenetic tests are used to predict...
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