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Pharmacogenetics for depression not ready for clinical use: Study
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30380
Subject(s) - pharmacogenetics , depression (economics) , clinical practice , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , family medicine , biology , biochemistry , gene , genotype , economics , macroeconomics
There are several pharmacogenetic decision support tools that have been evaluated in clinical settings, but the evidence for such testing in clinical practice is insufficient, particularly when it comes to predicting side effects of medications, researchers write in a recent issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry .