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A Patient Visits Her Physician Stating That Her Prescribed Painkiller

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A patient visits her physician stating that her prescribed painkiller is not working to reduce the pain following her recent surgery.A friend of the patient claims that the same painkiller "worked wonders" to reduce her pain after the same surgery.The physician states that the difference in the effect of the drug might be caused by ____,which is studied in pharmacogenetics.


A) epidemiology
B) an inherited disease
C) a conflict of interest
D) a genetic variation in drug-metabolizing enzymes

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