Monday, October 26, 2015

International Workgroup Recommendations for Pharmacogenetic Test Result Reporting

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Lack of standardization in gene nomenclature systems and inconsistencies between laboratory reports of genetic test results have been ident...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Pharmacogenomics in the clinic: Review article in this week's Nature

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In the most recent edition of Nature, Dr. Mary Relling and Dr. William Evans provide a review of pharmacogenomic implementation in the cl...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Sequence to Medical Phenotypes, a Framework for Interpretation, Published in PLoS Genetics

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As the cost of whole genome sequencing plummets and becomes more attractive for widespread application, utility depends on identifying and ...
Monday, October 12, 2015

PharmGKB succinylcholine PK/PD pathway published in Pharmacogenetics and Genomics

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Succinylcholine (SCH) is a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent with a rapid onset of action and short half-life. SCH is commonly used...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Successful implementation of widespread pharmacogenetic testing discussed this week in The Atlantic

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An article this week in The Atlantic presents the story of widespread testing for HLA genotypes in some Southeas...
Friday, October 9, 2015

July/August SNPits Summary

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The July/August issue of UF Health Personalized Medicine Program's e-newsletter,  SNPits , reviews a recent article in the  Journal of t...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

PharmGKB welcomes Alie Fohner to the team

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We are pleased to welcome scientific curator Alison (Alie) Fohner to the PharmGKB team. Alie recently earned her PhD in Public Health Genet...