pharmacogenetics
noun
phar·ma·co·ge·net·ics
ˌfär-mə-kō-je-ˈne-tiks 
plural in form but singular in construction
: the study of how genetic differences among individuals cause varied responses to a drug
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Wojcicki said the company will train Lemonaid doctors in how to integrate genetic risk reports and pharmacogenetics into care.
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Researchers of pharmacogenetics — the science that studies how genetic factors affect reactions to drugs — stress that medicine could produce different results based on race and genetic, socioeconomic and environmental dynamics.
—NBC News, 17 June 2020
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Fortune, 22 Oct. 2021
Researchers of pharmacogenetics — the science that studies how genetic factors affect reactions to drugs — stress that medicine could produce different results based on race and genetic, socioeconomic and environmental dynamics.
—NBC News, 17 June 2020
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pharmacogenetics
noun, plural in form but singular in construction
phar·ma·co·ge·net·ics
-jə-ˈnet-iks
: the study of how genetic differences among individuals cause varied responses to a drug
The major development that is helping to individualize therapy is the continuing advance of pharmacogenetics and its application to clinical problems.—Marcus M. Reidenberg, The Journal of the American Medical Association
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