Facilitating clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics.

摘要

For genetic variants associated with severe drug toxici-ties, there is a strong impetus for adoption. An example is the HLA-B15:02 variant, associated with the potentially lethal Stevens-Johnson syndrome in Asian patients treated with carbamazepine.1 Another example is the poor metabolizers of cytochrome p450 2D6 substrates that represent a range of risk when exposed to specific medications. The death of a child treated with fluoxetine illustrates the importance of identifying patients with impaired metabolism as well as the ethical dilemma of knowingly exposing patients with minimal metabolic capacity to substrates that require a specific enzyme for clearance.