SNPits

The Spring edition of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter, SNPits is out now. This edition of SNPits summarizes and discusses publications in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Gastroenterology, and Genetics in Medicine. The first publication summary was of a retrospective study that analyzed the pharmacogenetic (PGx)

The January issue of SNPits, the University of Florida’s Personalized Medicine Program e-newsletter, summarizes pharmacogenetics studies. The first is a 2009 article from the journal Gastroenterology. The authors conducted a multi center, randomized controlled trial whereby patients were given high or low-dose celecoxib, or placebo, and were followed up

The July/August issue of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter, SNPits, reviews a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association focused on genomic information in the electronic health record (EHR).  The authors of the study looked at how EHRs currently display genomic and

In the March/April issue of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter, SNPits, a recent study in the Lancet supports the benefit of pharmacogenomic testing for warfarin dosing is reviewed.  The authors found that those patients with warfarin-sensitive genotypes were more likely to be over-anticoagulated in the first

In the December issue of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter, SNPits, a recent study by Lee, et al. entitled "DPYD variants as predictors of 5-fluorouracil toxicity in adjuvant colon cancer treatment" is reviewed.  The authors find a statistically significant association between DPYD*2A and rs67376798

The November issue of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter, SNPits, is out.  This issue contains a summary of a recent paper by Nicholson and Formea in Clinical Chemistry that discusses implementing CPIC guidelines for CYP2D6 and codeine.  The authors highlight some of the difficulties that may arise

The University of Florida Health Personalized Medicine Program has released "SNP-its" study summaries for pharmacogenomic articles with clinical relevance.    The editorial team reviews articles from multiple journals and writes summaries for the ones most relevant to practicing clinicians.  Those interested are welcome to subscribe to a monthly newsletter.