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ReviewMolecular oncology2012

Germline pharmacogenomics in oncology: decoding the patient for targeting therapy.

Peter H O'Donnell, Mark J Ratain

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Review in Molecular oncology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter H O'DonnellSection of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. podonnel@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Mark J Ratain
University of Chicago · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pharmacogenomics is the study of genetic factors determining drug response or toxicity. The use of pharmacogenomics is especially desirable in oncology because the therapeutic index of oncology drugs is often narrow, the need for favorable drug response is often acute, and the consequences of drug toxicity can be life-threatening. In this review, we examine the state of pharmacogenomics in oncology, focusing only on germline pharmacogenomic variants. We consider several critical points when assessing the quality of pharmacogenomic findings and their relevance to clinical use, and discuss potential confounding factors limiting interpretation and implementation. Several of the most extensively studied drug-gene pairs (irinotecan and UGT1A1; tamoxifen and CYP2D6; 5-fluorouracil and DPYD) are inspected in depth as illustrations of both the state of advancement-and the current limitations of-present knowledge. We argue that there will likely soon be a critical mass of important germline pharmacogenomic biomarkers in oncology which deserve clinical implementation to provide optimal, personalized oncologic care. We conclude with a vision of how routine clinical testing of such germline markers could one day change the paradigm for cancer care.

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Drug Delivery SystemsGerm CellsPharmacogeneticsAntineoplastic AgentsGenotypeHumansNeoplasmsAntineoplastic Agents

Identifiers

PMID22321460
PMCPMC5528362
OpenAlexW2014398845

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