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The book exemplifies clinical cases of genetic variants in several diseases, defining genetic determinants for drug response and thoroughly describes the applications and therapy in clinical practice. Finally, the authors connect pharmacogenomics with the generation of cost-effectiveness treatments.

Applying Pharmacogenomics in Therapeutics is intended for graduate, medical school courses. or healthcare professionals with a deep focus on genomics, pharmacy, pharmacology, and clinical care practice. Healthcare providers and research scientists would benefit from this text as a reference tool of the recent advances in this field. This text is well written and provides useful examples, tables and clinical cases to better understand and practice the concepts being described. Each chapter begins with a short list of key concepts, an introduction to the topic of the chapter, and concludes with a summary and study questions to practice. The book facilitates an extensive number of references per chapter to educate in depth and to provide tools to increase research and knowledge to the readers. Overall, this text is a comprehensive presentation of the recent approaches in personalized therapy based on genome sequencing and pharmacology combination.

- Judit Jimenez-Sainz, The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, vol. 90, March 2017

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