ArticleThe American journal of psychiatry2018
Clinical Implementation of Pharmacogenetic Decision Support Tools for Antidepressant Drug Prescribing.
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- Comprehensive Characterization of Antidepressant Pharmacogenetics: A Systematic Review of Studies in Major Depressive Disorder.Clinical and translational science · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of pharmacogenomic-guided antidepressant prescribing in patients with depression: an umbrella review and updated meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of pharmacogenomics testing guiding on clinical outcomes in major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCT.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Review and Consensus on Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry.Pharmacopsychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Multi-gene Pharmacogenomic Testing That Includes Decision-Support Tools to Guide Medication Selection for Major Depression: A Health Technology Assessment.Ontario health technology assessment series · 2021Pooled it
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- Primary care and mental health providers' perceptions of implementation of pharmacogenetics testing for depression prescribing.BMC psychiatry · 2020Trial
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- An Assessment of Real-World Evidence and Other Sources Supporting Payer Coverage Decisions for Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
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- Autophagy dysfunction contributes to NLRP1 inflammasome-linked depressive-like behaviors in mice.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2024Article
- Suanzaoren decoction exerts its antidepressant effect via the CaMK signaling pathway.Translational neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
The accrual and analysis of genomic sequencing data have identified specific genetic variants that are associated with major depressive disorder. Moreover, substantial investigations have been devoted to identifying gene-drug interactions that affect the response to antidepressant medications by modulating their pharmacokinetic or pharmacodynamic properties. Despite these advances, individual responses to antidepressants, as well as the unpredictability of adverse side effects, leave clinicians with an imprecise prescribing strategy that often relies on trial and error. These limitations have spawned several combinatorial pharmacogenetic testing products that are marketed to physicians. Typically, combinatorial pharmacogenetic decision support tools use algorithms to integrate multiple genetic variants and assemble the results into an easily interpretable report to guide prescribing of antidepressants and other psychotropic medications. The authors review the evidence base for several combinatorial pharmacogenetic decision support tools whose potential utility has been evaluated in clinical settings. They find that, at present, there are insufficient data to support the widespread use of combinatorial pharmacogenetic testing in clinical practice, although there are clinical situations in which the technology may be informative, particularly in predicting side effects.
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