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The way personalized medicine works is: you get information from patients about their genomics, and what follows is pharmacogenetics, which is, essentially, you get this drug based on how you metabolize drugs.

Within the next six months, the institute will begin providing consults on pharmacogenetics to health care providers who are interested in using the genetic testing, Woodahl said.

But using pharmacogenetics to help treat depression remains controversial.

The test is related to a segment of medicine called pharmacogenetics, which is the study of how genes influence how we react to drugs.

The NHLBI’s Jaquish says she believes the biggest benefit from personal genetic information will be in pharmacogenetics, the field that studies how genes affect the way people respond to drugs.