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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2020
Treatment with antipsychotic drugs is, despite the introduction of many new compounds, far from optimal in a large proportion of patients. Apart from lack of or insufficient response, various adverse drug reactions often limit the use of otherwise efficient drugs, and increase the risk of non-compliance and poor treatment outcome. Thus, there is considerable need for individualized treatment in order to maximize the therapeutic outcome. This variability in drug response may be related to both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic factors, many of which are genetically regulated. In the presentation, the contribution of allelic variability in genes coding for drug metabolic enzymes (CYP2D6, CYP1A2 and others) and transport proteins (ABCB1), as well as drug targets, to the pharmacokinetics and clinical effects of atypical antipsychotics will be discussed, using olanzapine and clozapine as model drugs. While CYP2D6 had no influence, carriage of two CYP1A2 allelic variants was associated with higher dose-adjusted plasma concentrations of clozapine and its metabolite desmethylclozapine. Patients with elevated insulin levels more frequently carried the *1C and *1D alleles, had higher plasma drug levels, higher blood lipids and HOMA-IR compared to patients with normal insulin levels. Associations were found between HTR2C and HTR2A haplotypes and increased BMI and C-peptide levels. A HTR2C haplotype was also shown to be significantly more frequent among obese than non-obese patients on long-term clozapine treatment. The data illustrate the need of an integrated approach involving both pharmacokinetic and -dynamic aspects in pharmacogenetic studies aiming at personalized antipsychotic treatment.
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