Research
Could your genes affect your medications? New study highlights high probability
The Brief
- A study of a diverse sample of nearly 100,000 people found that every participant carried at least one genetic variant affecting how their body processes medications.
- About a quarter of participants had been prescribed a medication known to be affected by a variant they carried.
- The study was reported by Medical Xpress on 2026-11-11.
Why it matters
Genetic variants that alter drug processing are common in this sample, so genetic differences may affect how well some prescribed medications work or how safely they are tolerated.
Who’s affected
- clinicians and pharmacists
- people taking prescription medications
- researchers in pharmacogenomics
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Everyone in a diverse, nearly 100,000-person sample carried at least one genetic variant that affects how their body processes medications, and a quarter of those people had been prescribed a medication that is known to be impacted by the variant they carried, a new University of…