... inferences about how these populations might be expected to respond to drugs in relation to other racial or ethnic groups. This lack of information could create a barrier to the use of pharmacogenetic testing in these populations. Collaborative partnerships between indigenous communities and researchers...

... regarding pharmacogenetics. The objective is to identify factors affecting the adoption pattern of pharmacogenetics in the public. Method: The paper is based on an Internet-based questionnaire survey conducted in March 2005. A total of 3,000 representative Danes aged 18–70 years were included in the survey...

...Regine Kollek; Jan van Aken; Günter Feuerstein; Mechtild Schmedders Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a major public health problem. Pharmacogenetic testing prior to drug treatment is supposed to considerably alleviate this problem. The state of pharmacogenetic development was assessed...

...Mechtild Schmedders; Jan van Aken; Günter Feuerstein; Regine Kollek Objective: Individualized, or personalized, therapy is highlighted as the declared goal of pharmacogenetics. In this paper, the content and significance of the individualization concept are analyzed. Method: Our analysis is based...

... and became the basis of the field which Friedrich Vogel [ 5 ]named pharmacogenetics in 1959. Pharmacogenetics – inspired by the names of the major disciplines of pharmaco-dynamics and -kinetics – is the study of variability in drug response due to heredity [ 3, 6, 7 ]. Kalow [ 8 ]wrote the first textbook...

...L. Middleton; A. Freeman; S. Brewster; C. Foster; A. Roses Over the next 3–5 years pharmacogenetics will provide opportunities to enhance the efficacy and tolerability of medicines, accelerated by the ongoing rapid development of a high-density map of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP...

.... This type of study opens the door to pharmacogenetic studies in which sib pairs are analyzed for their concordant or discordant response to a medication. 4 4 2001 © 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel 2001 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication...