Genes & Your Health Edition – Pharmacogenomics and its Value for Primary Care
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Guest: Jessica A. Wright, Pharm.D., R.Ph.
Host: Denise M. Dupras, M.D., Ph.D.
Pharmacogenomics helps to identify how your patients’ DNA may affect their response to medications. But there’s a lot of different genes! How do we get started? What resources are out there? Do we have to worry about every drug a patient is on? Find out these answers and more in episode three of the Genes & Your Health Edition from the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine.
Additional resources:
- PharmGKB: pharmgkb.org
- Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC®): cpicpgx.org
- Basic Pharmacogenomics Nomenclature: https://www.pharmgkb.org/page/glossary
- NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute: Healthcare Provider Resources: https://www.genome.gov/For-Health-Professionals/Provider-Genomics-Education-Resources
- Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine: https://www.mayo.edu/research/centers-programs/center-individualized-medicine
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