Hall I.P., Pirmohamed M. (Eds.). Pharmacogenetics

Taylor & Francis, 2006. - 338 p.
The only source on the subject to offer both an overview and a disease-based approach, this reference text spans the wide array of technical, methodological, regulatory, and ethical issues related to pharmacogenetics and stresses the impact of pharmacogenetic data on patient care and management. Providing expertly selected references, tables, and figures in each chapter, this guide details the relevance of pharmacogenetic applications to disease based specialities including sections on pharmacogenetics of cardiovascular, respiratory, central nervous system, infectious, gastroenterological, oncologic, hematologic, metabolic, and rheumatologic disorders.ForewordIdentification of Treatment Response Genes
Methods of Genotyping
Pharmacoproteomics
Potential Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues Raised by the Development of Pharmacogenetics
Pharmacogenetics of Adverse Drug Reactions
Pharmacogenetics of Respiratory Disease
Hematological Pharmacogenetics
Pharmacogenetics in Oncology
Pharmacogenetics in Infectious Diseases
Pharmacogenetics in Rheumatology
Polymorphisms in Cardiovascular Medicine: The Role of Genetic Variants in Disease Diagnosis and Drug Response
Pharmacogenetics and Metabolic Disease
Pharmacogenetics in Gastroenterology
The Genetics of Antipsychotic Response: Pharmacogenetic and Pharmacogenomic Investigations and Clinical Applications