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01-08-2010 | Original Paper

Pharmacogenetics of antidepressive treatment

Authors: Astrid Zobel, Wolfgang Maier

Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Issue 5/2010

Abstract

The search of the genetic predictors of response to antidepressants is a rapidly expanding field. A large number of clinical studies are reporting partly inconsistent results. Emerging new results focus on new candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms—particularly in the 5HT2a-receptor gene and the gene coding for the co-chaperone FKBP5. The impact of the 5HTTLPR polymorphism on therapeutic outcome and side effects under treatment with SSRIs has to be viewed in a more complex manner than previously proposed. All replicable genetic associations display only a very modest effect. Despite of enormous research efforts, currently pharmacogenetics of therapeutic effects and of side effects of antidepressants are unable to guide decisions on the selection of the most beneficial drug for an individual patient.

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Title: Pharmacogenetics of antidepressive treatment
Authors: Astrid Zobel
Wolfgang Maier
Publication date: 01-08-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Issue 5/2010
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-009-0091-4

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