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Gene test can predict risk of medications causing liver injury – Mirage News

Experts from the University of Nottingham have helped to develop a new genetic test that can predict the risk of different medications causing liver…

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Experts from the University of Nottingham have helped to develop a new genetic test that can predict the risk of different medications causing liver injury.
In a new study, published today in Nature Medicine, experts have identified a “polygenic risk score” that shows when a drug, be it an approved medication or an experimental one, poses a risk of drug-induced liver injury (DILI).
For clinicians, a risk score would allow them to run a quick genetic test to identify patients at higher risk of …

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