A patient asks a nurse to explain pharmacogenetics. Which response by the nurse is best?
a. "It is the effect of pharmaceutical agents on a person's genes."
b. "It uses genetic information to determine if particular drugs will work in a person."
c. "It is the science of using a person's genes to help create new medications."
d. "It was the project that mapped and sequenced human genes."
ANS: C
A
Pharmacogenetics is a developing field in which genetic variants that affect drug metabolism can help providers determine the correct dose of a particular drug and possibly even whether a particular drug will work at all
B
Pharmacogenetics is a developing field in which genetic variants that affect drug metabolism can help providers determine the correct dose of a particular drug and possibly even whether a particular drug will work at all
C
Pharmacogenetics is a developing field in which genetic variants that affect drug metabolism can help providers determine the correct dose of a particular drug, and possibly even whether a particular drug will work at all
D
Pharmacogenetics is a developing field in which genetic variants that affect drug metabolism can help providers determine the correct dose of a particular drug and possibly even whether a particular drug will work at all. Mapping and sequencing human genes was the Human Genome Project.
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