TY - JOUR T1 - Fifteen-minute consultation: Pharmacogenomics: a guide for busy clinicians JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-316971 SP - edpract-2019-316971 AU - Christopher Mark Parry AU - Daniel Hawcutt Y1 - 2019/05/15 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2019/05/15/archdischild-2019-316971.abstract N2 - The ultimate goal of pharmacogenomics is to understand how the effects of interindividual genetic variation impact on the response of patients to treatments and in turn optimise those treatments while minimising potential side effects. This review article provides a brief overview of pharmacogenomics, focusing on the methods used to understand how genes of interest are identified, how pharmacogenomics is currently used within paediatric clinical practice within the UK, potential areas for future use and some of the caveats specific to paediatric medicine. ER -