Compiled by leading authorities on the topic, this guide explains how genetic variation contributes to differing patient responses to medicines, including chemotherapy emphasizes how pharmacogenetics will alter the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of common diseases demonstrates the role of pharmacogenetics in the development of patient-tailored medications discusses variability in drug metabolism enzyme pathways The only source on the subject to offer both an overview and a disease-based approach, this reference text spans the wide array of technical, methodological, regulatory, and...