• J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Nov 2023

    Risk-conferring HLA variants in an epilepsy cohort: benefits of multifaceted use of whole genome sequencing in clinical practice.

    • Angeliki Vakrinou, Ravishankara Bellampalli, Medine I Gulcebi, Helena Martins Custodio, Research ConsortiumGenomics EnglandGEGenomics England Limited, London, UK.William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK., Simona Balestrini, and Sanjay M Sisodiya.
    • Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.
    • J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 2023 Nov 1; 94 (11): 887892887-892.

    BackgroundWhole genome sequencing is increasingly used in healthcare, particularly for diagnostics. However, its clinically multifaceted potential for individually customised diagnostic and therapeutic care remains largely unexploited. We used existing whole genome sequencing data to screen for pharmacogenomic risk factors related to antiseizure medication-induced cutaneous adverse drug reactions (cADRs), such as human leucocyte antigen HLA-B*15:02, HLA-A*31:01 variants.MethodsGenotyping results, generated from the Genomics England UK 100 000 Genomes Project primarily for identification of disease-causing variants, were used to additionally screen for relevant HLA variants and other pharmacogenomic variants. Medical records were retrospectively reviewed for clinical and cADR phenotypes for HLA variant carriers. Descriptive statistics and the χ2 test were used to analyse phenotype/genotype data for HLA carriers and compare frequencies of additional pharmacogenomic variants between HLA carriers with and without cADRs, respectively.Results1043 people with epilepsy were included. Four HLA-B*15:02 and 86 HLA-A*31:01 carriers were identified. One out of the four identified HLA-B*15:02 carriers had suffered antiseizure medication-induced cADRs; the point prevalence of cADRs was 16.9% for HLA-A*31:01 carriers of European origin (n=46) and 14.4% for HLA-A*31:01 carriers irrespective of ancestry (n=83).ConclusionsComprehensive utilisation of genetic data spreads beyond the search for causal variants alone and can be extended to additional clinical benefits such as identifying pharmacogenomic biomarkers, which can guide pharmacotherapy for genetically-susceptible individuals.© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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