Introduction and Clinical Perspective of Pharmacogenomics

Description

This book aims to provide a practical, up-to-date, and integrated look at pharmacogenomics in drug discovery and development. It will discuss everything from individual molecules to systemic diseases, from basic ideas to advanced technologies. The second part of this book is about how pharmacogenomics can be used to treat diseases. This is a big part of the book. Some of these diseases are heart, cancer, neurological, GI, autoimmune, and infectious diseases. There is much information about each disease system, like what biomarkers are involved and how genes, drugs, diseases, drug response phenotypes, and the environment are all connected.