Biography
Biography: Ana Sabater Sales
Abstract
A single word Pharmacogenetics is the answer for ‘why certain drugs produce toxic effects to some people & why in certain individuals, a particular drug does not help?’
Knowing the genetic polymorphisms of a patient shows whether a drug will make the intended effect according to the dosage from clinical trials, will require more or less dose, or it should be avoided and seek a therapeutic alternative.In general, patients are polymedicated, however the effect of various drugs administered together may be different (produce ineffectiveness or toxicity), different to what would happen when administered alone. Sometimes, even if a person could take the drugs individually according to the genetics, the drugs themselves could inhibit or induce the other.To successfully apply pharmacogenetics and make a prescription safely and accurately, many parameters should be taken into account, such as drug-drug interactions, drug-lifestyle, inhibitions and inductions and dose variation according to patient studied genes. All this information can only be interpreted together, using a pharmacogenetics interpretation software like g-Nomic®. g-Nomic crosses information concerning prescribed drugs, patient’s genetic variations to give a personalized report with all necessary information: drug interactions, drug with lifestyle, inhibitions, inductions and dose variation according to the patient's genes. Applied pharmacogenetics can indeed avoid many emergency cases, safe lives and money. But to correctly apply pharmacogenetics, an interpretation software is needed since there are too many variables to consider.