Feng, Xiaodong_ Xie, Hong-Guang - Applying pharmacogenomics in therapeutics-CRC Press (2016)
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Essential Pharmacogenomic Biomarkers in Clinical Practice
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JAK2 mutations (JAK2V617F) are not commonly expressed in AML, a small subset
of patients may harbor these mutations, including those with myeloproliferative
neoplasms that evolved into AML. Those patients with these JAK2 mutations were
found to respond to ruxolitinib, a JAK1/2 inhibitor. 117
Psychiatric Disorders
Pharmacogenetic and pharmacogenomic studies have also benefited psychiatric
disorders management by identifying novel biomarkers that are associated with
responders and/or patients who may have severe side effects, such as suicidal
thinking. We showcase here some examples of biomarkers based on recent studies,
including GWASs on drug response. For example, SSRIs are currently the
most commonly administered first-line treatment for depression and obsessive–
compulsive disorder (OCD); however, more than 30% of patients do not respond
to SSRIs. Therefore, novel drugs and biomarkers are needed for individualizing
treatment in patients with depression. A recent whole-genome association study
identified novel loci associated with altered antidepressant response to SSRIs in
1773 OCD cases from a family-based GWAS, 118 including SNPs rs17162912 (an
intergenic variation near DISP1 gene on 1q41-q42, a microdeletion region related
to mental retardation) and rs9957281 (located within a newly identified OCD susceptibility
gene DLGAP1, a member of the neuronal postsynaptic density complex).
In addition, 13 other significant variants were also identified in 6 genes, namely
FAM225B ( encoding family with sequence similarity 225, member B, nonprotein
coding), CDYL2 (encoding chromodomain protein, Y-like 2), PAFAH1B1 (encoding
platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase 1b, regulatory subunit 1), TACC1 (encoding
transforming, acidic coiled-coil containing protein 1), CSMD1 (encoding CUB
and Sushi multiple domains 1), and GAS2 (encoding growth arrest-specific 2).
Therefore, these newly identified drug response loci can be tested in the development
of personalized care of OCD patients treated with SSRIs. In addition, these
results would also provide new targets for developing other novel drugs for treating
nonresponders.
THOUGHTS FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION
The majority of currently known pharmacogenomic loci have not yet become pharmacogenomic
biomarkers implemented in clinical practice. Large-scale clinical
trials in the future on these biomarkers will provide essential knowledge on the
usefulness of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics in alleviating severe ADRs
and enhancing therapeutic efficacy in patients. Notably, given the ethnic disparities
in drug treatments, expanding future pharmacogenomic discovery studies to
target ethnicity- or population-specific biomarkers for therapeutic phenotypes may
help provide better healthcare to different populations, an important component of
precision and personalized medicine. More recently, the relationships across genetic
variants, epigenetic traits (DNA methylation, histone modifications, microRNAs)
as well as gene expression phenotypes have also begun to be elucidated in human
genetics models. For example, the complex relationships across common genetic