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Episode 3 “Your genes on drugs: context matter” with Drs Frederick ‘Fritz’ Roth, Iris Cohn & Michelle Axford

Episode 3 “Your genes on drugs: context matter” with Drs Frederick ‘Fritz’ Roth, Iris Cohn & Michelle Axford

How do your genes impact your drug response, and what about your metabolism? In this episode we explain genetic variation impacting drug response or pharmacogenomics and folate requirements in pregnancy. Variant effect maps are an amazing tool for understanding individual response to diseases and drugs, but normally they are made in one environment, how many environments are needed for us to implement individualized medicine?

Transcript and show notes can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/13685455