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Race and Ethnicity in the Era of Emerging Pharmacogenomics
Author(s) -
Harty Lea,
Johnson Keith,
Power Aidan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.92
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1552-4604
pISSN - 0091-2700
DOI - 10.1177/0091270005286028
Subject(s) - pharmacogenomics , race (biology) , scrutiny , ethnic group , drug response , categorization , pharmacogenetics , medicine , sociology , drug , biology , political science , genetics , pharmacology , epistemology , gene , law , gender studies , philosophy , genotype
Race and ethnicity are terms that are commonly used to categorize subjects in medical research. Advances in genetics and the emerging discipline of pharmacogenomics have brought these terms under scrutiny, with arguments either for the continued use or for the abandonment of these terms generating strong views. As pharmacogenomics research develops, we may find that more accurate and specific descriptions of relevant variation in genes will reduce the value that these imprecise descriptors have in predicting how people will respond to drug therapies.