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Understanding Pharmacogenomics in Healthcare

Pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic makeup affects their response to drugs. It holds the promise that drugs may one day be tailored to each person's unique genetics. Over 2 million people are hospitalized each year from adverse drug reactions, the sixth leading cause of death. Pharmacogenomics works by identifying genetic variations that influence drug response and susceptibility to diseases or adverse reactions. It is currently used in drug development and discovery and seen as key to personalized medicine in the future.

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Understanding Pharmacogenomics in Healthcare

Pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic makeup affects their response to drugs. It holds the promise that drugs may one day be tailored to each person's unique genetics. Over 2 million people are hospitalized each year from adverse drug reactions, the sixth leading cause of death. Pharmacogenomics works by identifying genetic variations that influence drug response and susceptibility to diseases or adverse reactions. It is currently used in drug development and discovery and seen as key to personalized medicine in the future.

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Pharmacogenomics

The New Step Towards Improving


Healthcare
What is Pharmacogenomics ?
Pharmacogenomics is the study of how
an individual's genetic inheritance affects
the body's response to drugs. The term
comes from the words pharmacology and
genomics and is thus the intersection of
pharmaceuticals and genetics.
Conti…

Pharmacogenomics holds the promise that


drugs might one day be tailor-made for
individuals and adapted to each person's own
genetic makeup.
Why Do We Need Tailor Made
Drugs???
Did you know?
Over 2 million people are hospitalized each
year for adverse reactions to prescription
drugs.

Every year more than 100,000 people die


from those reactions, making it the sixth
leading cause of death!
ONE SIZE DOES NOT
FIT ALL
Conti…

All individuals have different genetic


makeup so they respond differently to the
same medicine
Environment, diet, age, lifestyle, and state
of health all can influence a person's
response to medicines.
SIMPLE DEFINATION
Using genetic information to predict whether
a drug will help make a patient well or ill.

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HOW PHARMACOGENOMICS WORKS??
Identifying gene sequence variations (SNPs) that
affect drug response

Identifying disease susceptibility genes which


represent potential new drug targets

Identifying gene sequence variations that can cause


adverse drug reactions
Current Impact
Pharmacogenomics broadly adopted in drug
discovery and development phases in the
pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmacogenomics research heavily invested upon


by public and private companies

Pharmacogenomics seen as the future of medicine


so called PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
FUTURE TRENDZ AND PROSPECTS
1. Point-of-care (Doctor’s office/Pharmacy)
genetic testing
2. Population screening
3. Personal Genomics
4. New Market Trends
5. More business
REFERENCES
GOOGLE
WIKIPEDIA
IGIB

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