Polymorphisms Involved in Response to Biological Agents Used in Rheumatoid Arthritis.

ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease that leads to joint destruction. During the last decade, the therapy of RA has been principally based on biological drugs. Although the efficacy of biological therapy has been established, patients demonstrated a high heterogeneity in clinical response to treatment. Several genetic polymorphisms play a part in the different response to biological drugs. This review summarizes the pharmacogenetics of biological agents approved for clinical RA treatment. We reviewed PubMed papers published over the past 20 years (2000-2020), inserting as the search term "rheumatoid arthritis and polymorphisms". Despite some studies showing important correlations between genetic polymorphisms and response to biological therapy in RA patients, most of these findi

SUBMITTER: Pallio G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7565539 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature