Book contents
- The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Reflections on Conceptualizing Africa for Biological Studies with a Historical Component
- 2 History and Genetics in Africa
- 3 Disease, Selection, and Evolution in the African Landscape
- 4 Genetic Susceptibility to Visceral Leishmaniasis
- 5 Genetics of Infection in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 6 Pharmacogenomics and Infectious Diseases in Africa
- 7 A Glimpse into Pharmacogenomics in Africa
- 8 Genomics of Cardiometabolic Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 9 Breast Cancer in African Populations
- 10 Sociobiological Transition and Cancer
- 11 The Genetic Epidemiology of Orphan Diseases in North Africa
- 12 Birth Defects and Genetic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 13 Neurogenetic Disorders in Africa: Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- 14 Enabling Genomic Revolution in Africa
- Index
- References
7 - A Glimpse into Pharmacogenomics in Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2019
- The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease
- Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
- The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Reflections on Conceptualizing Africa for Biological Studies with a Historical Component
- 2 History and Genetics in Africa
- 3 Disease, Selection, and Evolution in the African Landscape
- 4 Genetic Susceptibility to Visceral Leishmaniasis
- 5 Genetics of Infection in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 6 Pharmacogenomics and Infectious Diseases in Africa
- 7 A Glimpse into Pharmacogenomics in Africa
- 8 Genomics of Cardiometabolic Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 9 Breast Cancer in African Populations
- 10 Sociobiological Transition and Cancer
- 11 The Genetic Epidemiology of Orphan Diseases in North Africa
- 12 Birth Defects and Genetic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 13 Neurogenetic Disorders in Africa: Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- 14 Enabling Genomic Revolution in Africa
- Index
- References
Summary
Interindividual and interpopulation differences may be used to guide and optimize disease treatment based on genetics and this is referred to as pharmacogenetics or pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenetics is a branch of pharmacology that focuses on how single to few genetic markers affect drug efficacy and safety. Pharmacogenetics evaluates the effects of genetic variations on drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME), thereby broadly affecting its pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) properties (Hansen et al. 2009; Kitzmiller et al. 2011; Malik et al. 2010). Pharmacogenomics, on the other hand, is the study of how the variation across the whole genome influences response to therapeutic drugs and encompasses genes affecting host susceptibility to disease as well as disease pathways and mechanisms that affect gene expression and function. Both terms may be used interchangeably and will be referred to as pharmacogenomics in this chapter.
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- The Genetics of African Populations in Health and Disease , pp. 128 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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