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Getting the right drug into the right patient

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Pharmacogenomics will help explain why drugs work better in some patients than in others. These tools should be used as early in the drug development process as possible.

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Marshall, A. Getting the right drug into the right patient. Nat Biotechnol 15, 1249–1252 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1197-1249

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