Chapter CHST4, Problem 1RQ

What is pharmacogenomics, and how does it differ from pharmacogenetics?

Summary Introduction

To review:

The difference between pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics.

Introduction:

The field of personalized medicine has led to the prediction for the therapists to determine the probable cause and its correct therapeutics measures. The advanced techniques associated with the DNA (Deoxyribose nucleic acid) sequencing, cataloging the DNA sequence, and fingerprinting led the revolutionary changes in the field of genomics and the personalized medicine. Genomics is basically the branch of the biology that focuses on the structure, evolution, function, and the mapping procedures of the genomes of the organism.

Explanation of Solution

The difference between pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics is given in the table below:

Pharmacogenomics	Pharmacogenetics
Pharmacogenomics refers to the study that deals that how the personal genetic makeup of an individual is useful in determining the response of the body to the drugs.	Pharmacogenetics is the study that deals with the variations in the genes of an organism for determining the response against the drugs.
Patient-drug interactions are also involved in the pharmacogenomics. It is concerned with the development of the therapies for compensating the genetic differences.	Pharmacogenetics also involved the variations in the metabolisms of the medications given to the adults, children, and many people having a different type of medical conditions.
The area of pharmacogenomics deals with the effectiveness of the single drug for the wide assessment expression of the genome in the presence of the particular drug.	This area of pharmacogenetics deals with the related effect of the single drug on patient variabilities and various genomes.

Conclusion

Thus, it can be concluded that the pharmacogenomics tells that how the entire genome can influence the drug response. The pharmacogenetics tells that how a single gene can influence the response for a particular drug.