Standardizing terms for clinical pharmacogenetic test results: consensus terms from the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Reporting and sharing pharmacogenetic test results across clinical laboratories and electronic health records is a crucial step toward the implementation of clinical pharmacogenetics, but allele function and phenotype terms are not standardized. Our goal was to develop terms that can be broadly applied to characterize pharmacogenetic allele function and inferred phenotypes.

Materials and methods

Terms currently used by genetic testing laboratories and in the literature were identified. The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) used the Delphi method to obtain a consensus and agree on uniform terms among pharmacogenetic experts.

Results

Experts with diverse involvement in at least one area of pharmacogenetics (clinicians, researchers,

SUBMITTER: Caudle KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5253119 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature