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Ancestry and Pharmacogenomics
Although it has been suggested that “race-based medicine” holds promise for specific groups, race is an inappropriate classification since it is superficial, non-informative and population responses to pathophysiology and treatment are not solely genetic. Only a small portion of alleles and combinations of alleles can be directly correlated with populations originating in a certain geographic area, making it difficult to prescribe medications for a category of people based on their geographic population. To back this claim studies have proven that populations of African decent are amongst the most genotypically diverse in comparison to any others even though they are often categorized as being the same. Pharmagenocomic drugs however, are currently limited to only being able to distinguish people phenotypically. Therefore, experts in this field have suggested that personalized medicines targeted at people of similar ancestry would be of greater utility if entire genomic data were available for each individual patient.