Some people are unable to properly metabolize the drug Purinethol, which is given to patients with acute

lymphoblastic leukemia; therefore, such patients must be first tested for the associated genetic variant to determine proper
dosage of the drug. This scenario best illustrates the use of _____.
a. pharmacogenomics
b. map-based sequencing
c. positional cloning
d. annotation of DNA sequences
e. comparative genomics


a

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