Genomics and Proteomics

Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics is an important example of an accurate medical field, which aims to integrate the treatment of an individual or a group of people. Pharmacogenomics looks at how your DNA affects the way you react to drugs. In some cases, your DNA can affect whether you respond to a drug or whether the drug helps you or not. Pharmacogenomics can improve your health by helping you to know in advance whether a drug can be beneficial and safe to take.

Drugs interact with your body in many ways, depending on how you take the medicine and where the medicine works in your body. After taking the medicine, your body needs to break it down and take it to its intended place. Your DNA can affect many steps in this process to influence the way you react to a drug. Some examples of this interaction include

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  Drug Receptors.


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  Drug Uptake.


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  Drug Breakdown.


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  Targeted Drug Development.