Pharmacogenetics

by Wendell Weber

Drugs are administered to patients with the intention of achieving an expected therapeutic response. Yet drug therapy remains a medical art because of the wide variation in individual responses to standard drug doses. Pharmacogenetics emerged as a field aimed at identifying heritable factors that are predictive of individual variations in drug efficacy and toxicity from the dedicated work of a small group of investigators who in the 1950s began to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195341511
• ISBN13: 9780195341515
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"