Advances in Pharmacogenetics of Diseases
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 80
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmacogenetics; precision medicine; psychiatry; genetic markers; rare variants; PRS; molecular pathway analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pharmacogenetics holds the promise of supporting a Copernican revolution in medicine. This event will be especially relevant in diseases, where the current, guidelines-based, trial and error strategy leads to periods of untreated disorders, poor compliance, and side effects. Pharmacogenetics holds the potential to substantiate part of the scientific development, which will allow precision medicine to become the most common treatment strategy in our hospitals. The relevance of this field is supported by emerging international guidelines in pharmacogenetics. Yet, implementable results, especially in the field of pharmacodynamics, lag behind expectations. There are numerous international coordinated initiatives underway to remove current obstacles to the application of pharmacogenetics in diseases. Conversely, the clinical diversity in therapy outcomes that has been found can only be partially explained by the validated pharmacogenomic markers that are already in place. It is necessary to conduct additional research.
Original research, reviews, and creative methods covering a variety of pharmacogenetics-related subjects in diseases are welcome in this Special Issue. The use of pharmacogenetics in clinical practice, the development of legislative tools and infrastructure related to pharmacogenetics, the search for novel pharmacogenetics markers specific to treatments of diseases, the importance of epigenetics and rare genetic variants in pharmacogenetics, and innovative protocols for pharmacogenetics research are just a few of the subjects covered in this Special Issue.
Dr. Antonio Drago
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pharmacogenetics
- precision medicine
- disease
- genetic markers
- rare variants
- PRS
- molecular pathway analysis
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