The only source on the subject to offer both an overview and a disease-based approach, this reference text spans the wide array of technical, methodological, regulatory, and ethical issues related to pharmacogenetics and stresses the impact of pharmacogenetic data on patient care and management. Providing expertly selected references, tables, and figures in each chapter, this guide details the relevance of pharmacogenetic applications to disease based specialities including sections on pharmacogenetics of cardiovascular, respiratory, central nervous system, infectious, gastroenterological, oncologic, hematologic, metabolic, and rheumatologic disorders.