Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Curators' Favorite Papers

The current Curators' Favorite Papers highlight articles about the translation of pharmacogenomics into practice.  The article by Johnson et al. describes the design of a customized pharmacogenetics genotyping array. This broad pharmacogenetics panel is built for the personalized medicine programs of the University of Florida and Stanford University [PMID: 22910441]. The publication by O'Donnell et al. introduces the "The 1200 Patients Project", a pharmacogenetics implementation project established by a team at the University of Chicago [PMID: 22929923]. Chua and Kennedy review current state and future prospects of direct-to-consumer pharmacogenetics [PMID: 22934000].