Pharmacogenomic profiling of the South Korean population: Insights and implications for personalized medicine.

Front Pharmacol

Seoul National University Biomedical Informatics (SNUBI), Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Published: December 2024

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) pose substantial public health issues, necessitating population-specific characterization due to variations in pharmacogenes. This study delineates the pharmacogenomic (PGx) landscape of the South Korean (SKR) population, focusing on 21 core pharmacogenes. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) was conducted on 396 individuals, including 99 healthy volunteers, 95 patients with chronic diseases, 81 with colon cancer, 81 with breast cancer, and 40 with gastric cancer, to identify genotype-specific drug dosing recommendations. Our detailed analysis, utilizing high-throughput genotyping (HTG) of CYP2D6 and comparative data from the 1,000 Genomes Project (1 KG) and the US National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), revealed significant pharmacogenetic diversity in core pharmacogenes such as CYP2B6, CYP2C19, CYP4F2, NUDT15, and CYP2D6. Notably, intermediate metabolizer frequencies for CYP2B6 in SKR (3.28%) were comparable to Europeans (5.77%) and East Asians (5.36%) but significantly differed from other global populations ( < 0.01). For CYP2C19, 48.74% of SKR individuals were classified as intermediate metabolizers, with the *35 allele (2.02%) being unique to SKR, the allele not observed in other East Asian populations. Additionally, the high-risk *3 allele in CYP4F2 was significantly more frequent in SKR (34.72%) than in other East Asian populations ( < 0.01). NUDT15 poor metabolizers were found in 0.76% of SKR, aligning closely with other East Asians (1.59%), while TPMT poor metabolizers were predominantly observed in Europeans and Africans, with one case in SKR. We identified significant allele frequency differences in CYP2D6 variants rs1065852 and rs1135840. Among the 72 drugs analyzed, 93.43% (n = 370) of patients required dosage adjustments for at least one drug, with an average of 4.5 drugs per patient. Moreover, 31.31% (n = 124) required adjustments for more than five drugs. These findings reveal the substantial pharmacogenetic diversity of the SKR population within the global population, emphasizing the urgency of integrating population-specific PGx data into clinical practice to ensure safe and effective drug therapies. This comprehensive PGx profiling in SKR not only advances personalized medicine but also holds the potential to significantly improve healthcare outcomes on a broader scale.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650365PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2024.1476765DOI Listing

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