Predictive, Preventive & Personalized Medicine and Molecular Diagnostics

Pharmacogenomics is the study of  the role of genetics in drug response. It deals with the influence of acquired and inherited genetic variation on drug response, drug absorption distribution, metabolism, and elimination ,as well as drug receptor target effects . Pharmacogenomics isoften used interchangeably with pharmacogenetics. Pharmacogenomics is used for the detection of   the individual genetic variation with drug responses pharmacogenetics focuses on single drug-gene interactions, incorporating genomics and epigenetics while dealing with the effects of multiple genes on drug response.