Occupation or Discipline
pharmacogenomics Audio
[ far-muh-koh-jeh-noh-mix ]
Definitions related to pharmacogenomics:
  • A subdiscipline of PHARMACOGENETICS using GENOMICS and PROTEOMICS methodology to study genetic variability of responses to drugs and drug metabolism (BIOTRANSFORMATION).
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Science that examines inherited variations in genes that dictate drug response and explores the ways such variations can be used to predict whether a person will respond favorably, adversely, or not at all to an investigational product.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The investigation of the collective impact of variations across a genome on drug responses.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The study of how a person's genes affect the way he or she responds to drugs. Pharmacogenomics is being used to learn ahead of time what the best drug or the best dose of a drug will be for a person.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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