Nacho suffers from terrible migraine headaches.He enters a clinical trial to test whether certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)are associated with response to one drug but not another.This is an approach called
A) gene therapy.
B) pharmacogenomics.
C) genetic determinism.
D) applied pharmacology.
E) genotherapy.

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Nacho is part of a clinical trial testing whether specific SNPs can predict a response to certain drugs. This approach is called pharmacogenomics, which is the study of how genetic variations can affect individual responses to drugs. Gene therapy, genetic determinism, and genotherapy are not relevant to this specific scenario. Applied pharmacology can be loosely related, but it doesn't precisely describe the approach being used.

Nacho Suffers from Terrible Migraine Headaches