Genetic tests may miss reaction risk from drug prescribed to millions

A familial marker already utilized to emblem the hazard of a life-threatening absorption to the antibiotic vancomycin besides identifies patients astatine hazard of that absorption to lamotrigine—and it is missing from the cistron panels clinicians bid earlier prescribing the drug, Vanderbilt Health-led researchers study successful JAMA Network Open. The 2 variants those panels bash trial for showed nary relation with lamotrigine absorption successful a U.S. population.