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Author Spotlight: A Pharmacodissection Approach to Uncover Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Populations
Published on: July 21, 2023
Contributions of pharmacogenetics to personalized precision therapy of diabetes and hypercholesterolemia
Hugo A Barrera-Saldaña1,2,3,4, Rafael B R León-Cachón5,6,7, Vanessa González-Covarrubias8
1Vitagénesis, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
Background:
Personalized medicine allows the selection of the drug and dose based on the patient's genetic information, which is imperative in the treatment of diabetes and hypercholesterolemia, diseases with high prevalence in Mexico.
Objective:
To integrate pharmacogenetic and genomic research on antidiabetic and antihypercholesterolemic drugs in Mexican patients.
Material And Methods:
We integrated our research, relating it with similar research from national and foreign laboratories.
Results:
For antidiabetic pharmacological treatments, variants in the ABCC8 and KCNJ11 genes were consistently associated with the response to sulfonylureas, while variants in the SLC47A1, SLC28A1 and ABCG2 genes explained up to 55% of the variability in the response to metformin. Regarding hypercholesterolemia, atorvastatin treatment is influenced by variants in the genes MTHFR, DRD3, GSTM3, TNFα MDR1, SLCO1BI, ABCB1, CYP2D6, CYP2B6, NAT2 and COMT.
Conclusion:
Our findings highlight the need to integrate pharmacogenetics into clinical practice to achieve greater therapeu tic success in diabetes and hypercholesterolemia.
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