Genes & Your Health Edition - Pharmacogenomics and its Value for Primary Care

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Guest: Jessica A. Wright, Pharm.D., R.Ph.

Host: Denise M. Dupras, M.D., Ph.D.

Pharmacogenomics helps to identify how your patients’ DNA may affect their response to medications. But there's a lot of different genes! How do we get started? What resources are out there? Do we have to worry about every drug a patient is on? Find out these answers and more in episode three of the Genes & Your Health Edition from the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine.

Additional resources:

• PharmGKB: pharmgkb.org
• Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC®): cpicpgx.org
• Basic Pharmacogenomics Nomenclature: https://www.pharmgkb.org/page/glossary
• NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute: Healthcare Provider Resources: https://www.genome.gov/For-Health-Professionals/Provider-Genomics-Education-Resources
• Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine: https://www.mayo.edu/research/centers-programs/center-individualized-medicine

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