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19 - Brain imaging and pharmacogenetics in Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia

from Part VI - Pharmacogenetics and brain imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2009

Steven G. Potkin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
James L. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada
Vincenzo S. Basile
Affiliation:
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada
Bernard Lerer
Affiliation:
Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center, Jerusalem
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In the future the current trial and error prescribing practices of physicians will be replaced by individualized treatment algorithms based upon each patient's genotype. This advance will be based on the results from large databases relating allelic variation in thousands of genes to medication response including differences in efficacy and side effects. Such databases will produce a series of probabilistic predictions based on the individual's genetic background. As useful as these data-based associations will prove, the basic underlying pathophysiological mechanisms may remain elusive. Brain imaging techniques combined with genetics can contribute to developing an understanding of the pathophysiological mechanism of disease and treatment response. These advances, coupled with developments in gene chip technology and informatics, will lead to surgery/office-based determinations of an individual's genetic background to be used in data-based individualized medication algorithms to optimize treatment.

Introduction

A primary goal of psychiatric genetics is to identify associations between allelic variation in genes and the risk for the development of psychiatric illness. The same association study strategy can be applied to understanding individual patient response to pharmacological treatment, including the occurrence of side effects. Associations between allelic variants and liability to side effects to different pharmacological agents, as well as the hierarchical likelihood of clinical response, can be established. Such associations do not necessarily point the way toward the pathophysiological mechanism of disease and can, in fact, be irrelevant.

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Print publication year: 2002

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