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Race and Pharmacogenetics discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine

The authors of a new Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine (“Will precision medicine move us beyond race?”) focus on the potential pitfalls of using race based categories as proxies for pharmacogenetic variants. Self-identified race may not predict genotype or drug response in individual patients and the use

Pharmacogenetics in Scientific American

Dina Fine Maron discusses pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics (PGx) in a new video and article titled “A Very Personal Problem” in this week’s issue of Scientific American. In that article, Fine Maron describes the science of PGx and tells the personal stories of two pediatric patients who received care at

European Union awards €15 million to U-PGx consortium

The European Union H2020 programme has awarded a €15 million grant to the Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics (U-PGx) consortium for an international pharmacogenomics research and implementation project. The aim of the U-PGx consortium is to make actionable pharmacogenomic data and effective treatment optimization accessible to every European citizen. The objective of the

Evidence of pharmacogenetics in aiding polypharmacy outcomes

Many drugs interact with the same enzymes and transporters. As a result, variation in the genes encoding these proteins can affect risks of side effects and likelihood of treatment success for patients taking many medications. These interactions may be different and not necessarily predicted from trials of single drugs. Knowing

Introducing the new PharmGKB Cancer PGx Portal

PharmGKB has collected a number of resources for Cancer PGx into one easy location. There are tables with direct links to genes important for cancer drug response both for PD and PK, to cancer drug pathways, particular cancers that have PGx data, types of toxicities common to cancer drugs, and

Top 100 Prescribed Drugs with CPIC Guidelines

Pharmacogenetics has important consequences for some of the most commonly prescribed medications. Depending on the source and structure of the list, the 100 most commonly prescribed drugs include between 3 (RxList from the Medscape report of August 2014 http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp ) and 16 (Pharmacy student

Pharmacogenomics Clinical Annotation Tool (PharmCAT)

An active area of genomic medicine implementation at many health care organizations and academic medical centers includes development of decision support and return of results around pharmacogenomics. The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) has established guidelines surrounding gene-drug pairs that can and should lead to treatment modifications based on genetic

CPIC Informatics Working Group publishes article in JAMIA

An article from the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Informatics Working Group has now been published ahead-of-print on the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) website. Within the paper, the authors discuss principles that will support the implementation of precision medicine, particularly pharmacogenomics, into routine clinical care. Hoffman

DPYD testing saves money as well as prevents fluoropyrimidine toxicity

A recent article [PMID: 26573078] and editorial [PMID: 26644533] in The Journal of Clinical Oncology looked at prospective testing for DPYD *2A and prevention of grade 3 or higher toxicity. The study examined a large number of patients (n=2,038) and identified 22 carriers of DPYD *2A who then

The Wall Street Journal Discusses PGx

An article in the Wall Street Journal this week by Health Editor Melinda Beck called “Is Your Medicine Right for Your Metabolism?” discusses the current state of pharmacogenetics and obstacles to implementation of pharmacogenetics (PGx) in routine clinical care. The article and an accompanying video explain that variations in enzymes