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Pharmacogenomic or ‐epigenomic biomarkers in drug treatment: Two sides of the same medal?
Author(s) -
IngelmanSundberg M,
Cascorbi I
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt.351
Subject(s) - pharmacogenomics , epigenomics , epigenetics , adme , computational biology , drug development , pharmacogenetics , drug , biology , bioinformatics , medicine , genetics , pharmacology , gene , dna methylation , gene expression , genotype
Interindividual differences in expression of ADME genes are controlled by both genetic and epigenetic factors. Much emphasis has been made to describe the genetic influence, whereas the epigenetic part is not fully understood. Currently, we utilize mainly genetic biomarkers for optimization of drug therapy, although many rare genetic variants are not taken into consideration. Now, also epigenomic biomarkers are at hand and together genetic and epigenetic biomarkers can indeed improve the predictability of drug treatment.