Table of Contents

History and Overview.- Pharmacogenomics.- Functional Analysis of Gene Variation.- Transfection Assays With Allele-Specific Constructs.- Snapshot of the Allele-Specific Variation in Human Gene Expression.- Genome-Wide Analysis of Allele-Specific Gene Expression Using Oligo Microarrays.- HaploChIP.- Genotyping Techniques.- Aspects Influencing Genotyping Method Selection.- Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography for Mutation Detection and Genotyping.- Pyrosequencing of Clinically Relevant Polymorphisms.- Kinetic Fluorescence-Quenching Detection Assay for Allele Frequency Estimation.- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.- Fluorescence-Based Fragment Size Analysis.- Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Genotyping in DNA Pools.- TaqMan Genotyping of Insertion/Deletion Polymorphisms.- Management of Pharmacogenomic Information.- PharmGKB.- Systems for the Management of Pharmacogenomic Information.