Two large global studies show that people who lack certain pieces of DNA have a significantly greater risk of getting schizophrenia. The finding could lead to a better understanding of how to diagnose the illness....

Deaths from medication mistakes at home, like actor Heath Ledger's accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates finds....

mproving patient care by "personalizing" the practice of medicine often results from studying specific drugs and their impact of genetic biomarkers....

A new genomewide-association study has identified a genetic risk factor for myopathy in patients who are being treated with statins to lower LDL-cholesterol levels...

Pharmacogenetics, the study of genetic variation that influences an individual's response to drugs, is an important and growing focus in all of medical research, including psychiatry. It is a complex field, however, revealed by the lack of consistent and replicable findings across multiple studies, but some encouraging results are beginning to emerge....

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Pharmacogenomics