Could your genes affect your medications? New study highlights high probability
Everyone in a diverse, nearly 100,000-person sample carried at least one genetic variant that affects how their body processes medications, and a quarter of those people had been prescribed a medication that is known to be impacted by the variant they carried, a new University of Pittsburgh–led analysis reveals in Science Translational Medicine.
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