Resources for General Users

PharmGKB Definitions

• Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomics, and Personalized Medicine
• Categories of Pharmacogenetic Knowledge
  Clinical Outcome (CO), Pharmacokinetics (PK), Pharmacodynamics (PD), Molecular and Cellular Functional Assays (FA), Genotype (GN)

Articles about Pharmacogenomics

• "Patient's DNA May Be Signal to Tailor Medication"
  (29 Dec, 2008 The New York Times)
• "Medicines personalised to patients still decades away"
  (21 Sep, 2005 The Royal Society Science News)
• "A Drug to Call One's Own"
  (1 Aug, 2005 Scientific American)
• "Drugs 'don't work on many people'"
  (8 Dec, 2003 BBC News )
• "Nature Biotechnology Pharmacogenomics Supplement"
  (Oct, 1998 Nature Biotechnology)

Related Sites about Genes, Drugs, and Diseases

• Medicines for You
• Genes and Populations
• Medicines by Design
• Personalized Medicine 101

Frequently Asked Questions

• FAQ