How Pharmacogenomics can help you & why government and private healthcare are using it

“Helping you manage your medications better”

Reduce risk of drug reactions

A drug may have a low risk of side-effects in the general population, but a high risk in a group who possess a certain variation in their genome. The risk of a hypersensitivity reaction is much higher in patients who have a particular gene variant called HLA-B*5701. Due to these genetic differences, two people taking the same drug and dose may respond in very different ways; one drug might work very well for one person, but not at all for another. Or a certain drug might cause side effects for one person, but not for someone else.

Deciding the correct drug dosage

A patient might metabolise a drug faster than normal – so it is removed more quickly from the body and does not have sufficient effect. They may have no working copy of the TMTP gene. insight to better understand how you may be impacted by hundreds of the most commonly prescribed medications.

Personalised medication management

Drug-related side effects may be serious and life-threatening, with pharmacogenomics testing empowers healthcare professionals to reduce drug complications and provide precision medicine management to potentially reduce drug reactions. Allows a healthcare provider to choose the right drug and dose that are likely to work best for each individual patient based on unique genetic characteristics.