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Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(Database issue):D794-D799; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl853
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PharmGED: Pharmacogenetic Effect Database
C. J. Zheng1,2,
L. Y. Han1,2,
B. Xie1,2,
C. Y. Liew1,2,
S. Ong1,2,
J. Cui1,2,
H. L. Zhang1,2,
Z. Q. Tang1,2,
S. H. Gan1,2,
L. Jiang1,2 and
Y. Z. Chen1,2,*
1 Department of Pharmacy, Bioinformatics and Drug Design Group, National University of Singapore Blk S16, Level 8, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543
2 Department of Computational Science, Bioinformatics and Drug Design Group, National University of Singapore Blk S16, Level 8, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +65 6516 6877; Fax: +65 6774 6756; Email: phacyz{at}nus.edu.sg
Received August 15, 2006. Revised October 10, 2006. Accepted October 10, 2006.
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ABSTRACT
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Prediction and elucidation of pharmacogenetic effects is important
for facilitating the development of personalized medicines.
Knowledge of polymorphism-induced and other types of drug-response
variations is needed for facilitating such studies. Although
databases of pharmacogenetic knowledge, polymorphism and toxicogenomic
information have appeared, some of the relevant data are provided
in separate web-pages and in terms of relatively long descriptions
quoted from literatures. To facilitate easy and quick assessment
of the relevant information, it is helpful to develop databases
that provide all of the information related to a pharmacogenetic
effect in the same web-page and in brief descriptions. We developed
a database, Pharmacogenetic Effect Database (PharmGED), for
providing sequence, function, polymorphism, affected drugs and
pharmacogenetic effects. PharmGED can be accessed at
http://bidd.cz3.nus.edu.sg/phg/ free of charge for academic use. It currently contains 1825
entries covering 108 disease conditions, 266 distinct proteins,
693 polymorphisms, 414 drugs/ligands cited from 856 references.
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INTRODUCTION
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Individual response to drugs often differs significantly and
these drug-response variations are frequently associated with
polymorphisms of pharmacologically related proteins (
1
5).
Pharmacogenetic study of these proteins and their regulatory
sites is important for the understanding of molecular mechanism
of drug responses and for the development of personalized medicines
(
1,
6
9). Resources that provide information about molecular
mechanism of drug-response variations are useful for facilitating
pharmacogenomics study and the development of personalized medicine
(
10). There have been calls and efforts for developing such
resources (
11) and the related informatics tools (
12,
13). A
number of freely accessible web-based resources have been developed
for providing information about genetic and clinical pharmacogenetic
information (
14), polymorphisms in drug-related proteins (
15
20)
and toxicogenomics data (
21).
Although pharmacogenetic knowledge, polymorphism and toxicogenomic information are provided in these databases, some of the reported pharmacogetic effects are given in web-pages separate from that of other important information such as protein and drug information, and are often given by relatively long descriptions quoted from literatures. To facilitate easy and quick assessment of the relevant information, it is helpful to develop databases that provide all the information related to a pharmacogenetic effect in the same web-page. We developed Pharmacogenetic Effect Database (PharmGED) with the aim to provide the information about the effects of a particular protein polymorphism, non-coding region mutation, splicing alteration or expression variation on the response of a particular drug. It currently contains 1825 entries covering 108 disease conditions, 266 distinct proteins, 693 polymorphisms, 414 drugs/ligands cited from 856 references.
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DATABASE STRUCTURE AND ACCESS
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PharmGED has a web interface at
http://bidd.cz3.nus.edu.sg/phg/.
The entries of this database were derived from a comprehensive
search of published literatures (via Medline) by using a similar
search and evaluation procedure as we have used for developing
other databases of drug-related proteins (
15
18). Entries
of this database are searchable by several methods. These methods
include the search of protein name, drug/ligand name, disease
name (extracted from the related terms described in the relevant
publications) and drug class (derived based on the related terms
described in the relevant publications). Full list of protein
names, drug/ligand names, disease names and drug classes are
separately provided in the PharmGED main web-page for facilitating
the search of particular entries.
Moreover, keyword-based text search is also supported. The search is case insensitive and wildcards are supported. In a query, a user can specify full name or any part of the name in a text field. Wild character of * and ? is allowed in text field. Here, ? represents any single character and * represents a string of characters of any length. For example, input of dehydrogenase in the field of protein/gene name enables the finding of all entries containing dehydrogenase in the protein name, such as 3-oxo-5-alpha-steroid 4-dehydrogenase 2, Alcohol dehydrogenase 1B, Alcohol dehydrogenase 1C, Fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase, Glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase, NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (quinone) 1, etc. On the other hand, input of Fatty*dehydrogenase enables the finding of all dehydrogenases whose names start with Fatty.
The result of a typical search is illustrated in Figure 1. In this interface, all entries that satisfy the specified search criteria are listed along with protein name, polymorphism rules, drug/ligand name, drug classification, disease name and links to other related entries in this database. More detailed information of an entry can be obtained by clicking the corresponding protein name. The result is displayed in an interface shown in Figure 2. From this interface, one finds the accession number, name, sequence and function of protein, pharmacogenetic polymorphism, affected drugs and drug class, corresponding disease condition and pharmacogenetic effect. Moreover, the information about the related references and links to the literature database PUBMED (22) is also provided.

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Figure 1 The interface displaying a search result on PharmGED. All entries that satisfy the specified search criteria are listed along with protein name, polymorphism rules, drug/ligand name, drug classification, disease name and links to other related entries in this database.
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POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS
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Established links between polymorphisms of drug-related proteins
and individual drug responses have been used in combination
with genetic studies as indicators for predicting individual
variations of drug response (
23
27). Based on the statistical
analysis of the data of polymorphisms and variation of drug
response of the participating patients, simple rules may be
derived in some cases for predicting individual variations of
drug response from polymorphism data (
23,
24,
26,
28,
29). These
simple rules may be collected and used for developing a computer
prediction system in a fashion similar to that of the HIV drug-resistant
genotype interpretation systems (
30).
Table 1 gives examples of the drug-related proteins in PharmGED with available information about pharmacogenetic polymorphism and drug-response variation from which a reasonably accurate rule have been derived in the literature for predicting responses to a specific drug or drug group. The reported percentage of patients who have a polymorphism and showed the expected effect is also given. Based on the test of the patients described in these reports, most of these rules are capable of predicting drug responses at success rates of 50100%, which are not too much lower than and in many cases comparable to the accuracies of 8197% for predicting HIV drug resistance mutations from the HIV-resistant genotype interpretation systems (30). This suggests that these simple rules have certain level of capacity for facilitating the prediction of pharmacogenetic effects and they may be used as the basis for developing more sophisticated interpretation systems similar to those of the HIV-resistant genotype interpretation systems (30).
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Table 1 Prediction of specific drug responses from the polymorphisms of ADME-associated proteins by using simple rules
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PharmGED and other databases (
14
21) can be potentially
used for facilitating the generation of these rules. For instance,
one entry of PharmGED describes that patients using classical
neuropleptic such as fluphenazine, haloperidol have a higher
incidence (81%) of Tardive dyskinesia if they are of the genotype
CYP2D6*4. The corresponding polymorphism can be obtained from
a link provided in the database. These data combined with other
information in PharmaGED can be used to generate the rule for
detecting this pharmacogenetic effect described in
Table 1.
In a second example, another entry of PharmGED describes that
the polymorphism C3435T (Ile1145Ile) of protein MDR1-3435 variant
is associated with different virologic response of nelfinavir
in HIV-1 infected children. Fifty-nine percent of the 31 C/C
genotype and 91% of the 33 C/T genotype show virologic response
at eighth week, respectively. These data can then be used to
generate the rule for this pharmacogenetic effect as described
in
Table 1.
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
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Knowledge about protein polymorphisms and drug responses appears
to have reached a meaningful level for facilitating pharmacogenetic
study and for predicting various types of individual variations
of drug responses. Specialized pharmacogenetics databases serve
as convenient resources for obtaining the relevant information.
With the rapid development of genomics (
31), pharmacokinetics
(
32
35) and pharmacogenomics (
6,
8,
9), more information
about drug-related proteins, polymorphisms and variations of
drug responses are expected to become available. Moreover, progress
in the study of proteomics (
36) and pathways (
37) related to
drug-related proteins will further facilitate our understanding
of the mechanism of individual variations in drug response.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This work was supported in part by grants from Singapore ARF
R-151-000-031-112. The Open Access publication charges for this
article were waived by Oxford University Press.
Conflict of interest statement. None declared.
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