The incorporation of clinical guidelines of pharmacogenomics in Latin America

In Latin America the Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics areas are recently emerging fields and the main focus of the research is to evaluate ethnic differences to apply adapted guidelines to manage personalized pharmacotherapy. Large differences between countries in the awareness and in the use of pharmacogenomic testing are presumed, but are not well assessed to date. In this chapter, we present the efforts to investigate variability in drug response in the region, using molecular approaches, and we discuss the limitations to apply pharmacogenomics test in clinical centers and hospitals.