TraitHigh for drug-specific exposure and CPIC guidance
How your body handles some pain medicines
How your body handles some pain medicines is a genetic trait Biome reports in its medication response panel: Your CYP2C9 result can affect how long seven pain medicines stay in your body: celecoxib, flurbiprofen, ibuprofen, lornoxicam, meloxicam, piroxicam, and tenoxicam. The exact effect depends on the medicine.
- Category
- Medication response
- Markers
- CYP2C9 diplotype and activity score
- Strength of evidence
- High for drug-specific exposure and CPIC guidance
- DNA-test coverage
- Stronger with whole genome
Genes
How Biome reads this
Biome's whole-genome test reads this from one saliva sample, alongside all 3.2 billion letters of your DNA.
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