Application of pharmacogenomics in psychiatric practice: The road ahead.

This linkage of genetic characteristics of an individual patient/population with drug response has evolved into discipline of pharmacogenomics. Different patients may respond differently to the same drug (interindividual variability) and the same individual may respond differently to the drug at different time points (intraindividual variability). Drug response is multifactorial and depends on a number of variables. [Extracted from the article]

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