Curators Favorite Papers

The current Curators Favorite Papers are about the pharmacogenetics of statins. The review by Postmus et al. discusses achievements, whole-genome analyses and future perspectives [PMID: 22594514]. Van der Baan et al. investigate the value of pharmacogenetic testing in predicting statin response using data from the REGRESS trail [PMID: 22547143]. The Clinical Pharmacogenomics Implementation Consortium published a guideline for SLCO1B1 and simvastatin-induced myopathy [PMID: 22617227].