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The Impact of Genetics on COVID-19 Treatments – Technology Networks
A research team has studied how individualization with pharmacogenomics – the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs – may improve the efficiency and safety of COVID-19 treatments.
Over the past few months, a number of drugs have been under investigation to treat COVID-19 without well-established safety or data to support these claims. However, some of these unproven therapies may have underlying genetic reasons for not being effective and resulting in fatal adverse effects as found with hydroxychloroquine.University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy faculty Pamala Jacobson and Melanie Nicol, and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow Takuto Takahashi recently published a pee…
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