Occupation or Discipline
pharmacogenetics Audio
phar·ma·co·ge·net·ics [ fahr-muh-koh-juh-net-iks ]
Subclass of:
Science of genetics; Pharmacology
Definitions related to pharmacogenetics:
  • A branch of genetics which deals with the genetic variability in individual responses to drugs and drug metabolism (BIOTRANSFORMATION).
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Branch of genetics (the branch of science concerned with the means and consequences of transmission and generation of the components of biological inheritance) which deals with the genetic variability in individual responses to drugs and drug metabolism.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Study of the way drugs interact with genetic makeup or the study of genetic response to a drug.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The investigation of the influence of variations in DNA sequence on drug response.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The study of how a person's genes affect the way he or she responds to drugs. Pharmacogenetics is being used to learn ahead of time what the best drug or the best dose of a drug will be for a person.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Pharmacogenetics involves variations in drug response due to genetic makeup. The activity of drug-metabolizing enzymes often varies widely among healthy people, making metabolism highly variable. Drug elimination rates vary up to 40-fold. Genetic factors and aging seem to account for most of these variations.
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
  • Pharmacogenetics involves variations in drug response due to genetic makeup.
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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