How to Call and Read Your Own Pharmacogenetic Results
A working guide to producing star-allele diplotypes and CPIC phenotypes from your own sequencing data with PharmCAT, Cyrius, and PyPGx, and to reading a commercial PGx report critically.
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The Best Genetic Testing for Medication Response
Whole-genome sequencing processed with PharmCAT and Cyrius gives you more pharmacogenetic information than any branded psychiatric panel, and you keep the data. Here is how to run it and what the evidence supports.
What Pharmacogenetic Testing Costs, and What You Get for the Money
Cash prices for pharmacogenetic panels run from about $50 to over $2,000 for largely the same gene list. Here is what drives the spread, what insurance pays, and how to derive the same star-allele calls from whole-genome data yourself.
What a DNA Test for Medication Can and Cannot Tell You
Pharmacogenetic testing reliably predicts how you metabolize a few dozen drugs, and says almost nothing about which antidepressant will work. Here is what the genes cover, how to call the star alleles yourself from whole-genome data, and where the calls break.
What Genetic Testing for Medications Costs, and When Insurance Pays
Self-pay pharmacogenomic panels run roughly $200-$500, Medicare and commercial plans cover them only under narrow conditions, and a single whole-genome sequence answers the same questions permanently. Here is the pricing, the billing codes, and how to run the interpretation yourself.