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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

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