- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 141
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Laura SANJUÁN LANCHO, Lucia UDRESCU
- Creation / modification date: 28-02-2014
- Term: pharmacogenetics
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Study of how people's genetic makeup affects their responses to drugs.
- Context: Oncology is an obvious target for pharmacogenetics because cancer is often caused by environmental and inherited genetic mutations.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Remission: abr, ROB, rob. Source: BANDYOPADHYAY, R.B., HELLER, A., KNOX-DUBOIS, C.; MCCASKILL, C., BEREND, S.A., PAGE, S.L. and SHAFFER, L.G. (2002), “Parental Origin and Timing of De Novo Robertsonian Translocation Formation”, The American Society of Human Genetics, 71:6 (p.1456-1462)
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
- Definition: “What is pharmacogenetics?” The Royal Society [En línea]. http://royalsociety.org/News.aspx?id=6059 [última consulta: 18/12/2013]
- Context: “What is pharmacogenetics?” The Royal Society [En línea]. http://royalsociety.org/News.aspx?id=6059 [última consulta: 18/12/2013]
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