PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Maureen T. Cronin AU - Mylan Pho AU - Debjani Dutta AU - Felix Frueh AU - Leslie Schwarcz AU - Thomas Brennan TI - Utilization of New Technologies in Drug Trials and Discovery DP - 2001 Apr 01 TA - Drug Metabolism and Disposition PG - 586--590 VI - 29 IP - 4 4099 - http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/29/4/586.short 4100 - http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/29/4/586.full SO - Drug Metab Dispos2001 Apr 01; 29 AB - It has become widely accepted that individual genetic variation is a prime determinant in both disease susceptibility and toxic response to therapeutic agents and xenobiotics. Emerging genetic sequence data and phenotype association studies are expected to enable disease risk prediction and guide subsequent therapeutic approaches in individual cases. However, making a good match between an individual genetic profile, disease risk prediction, and appropriate therapeutic intervention will require genotyping many polymorphic sites in large numbers of genes or single nucleotide polymorphism sites throughout the genome. Additionally, each polymorphism will have to be associated with a phenotype. Presumably, a composite phenotype may be predicted by integrating anticipated contributions from each polymorphism contributing to the complex genotype. Methods for executing such large-scale genotyping studies are rapidly evolving and becoming available. DNA microarray technology applied in hybridization-based genotyping assays is particularly well suited to respond to the accelerating pace of polymorphism discovery and the associated demand for highly parallel genotyping capability. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics