The foray of Pharmacogenomics-An India perspective

Pharmacogenomics is the study of genetic differences responsible for the variability in response to drugs & metabolism among individual patients. The main interest or application of Pharmacogenomics is to permit the drugs to be tailor-made for every individual and adapted to each person’s own genetic makeup, so that making a way for creating personalized drugs with greater efficacy and safety.This review aims to provide an overview of the value and scope of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine in a developing country with severe health resource crunch and offers insights for the potential impact of this field on the safe and effective use of medications with its future prospects and challenges in a health set-up like India.