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- Epidemiology and Risk Factors
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1. Coronary heart disease epidemiology: global context for a new genetic understanding
- Prof. Harry Hemingway
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2. Cardiovascular risk factors
- Dr. Michal Vrablik
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3. Lipoproteins
- Prof. Arnold von Eckardstein
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4. Thrombotic risk factors for cardiovascular disease
- Prof. Gordon Lowe
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5. Lipoprotein(a)
- Dr. Jaimini Cegla
- Biology of Coronary Heart Disease
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6. Plaque rupture
- Prof. Petri Kovanen
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7. Transcription factors and complex disease development
- Dr. Ines Pineda-Torra
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8. Animal models to explore cardiovascular disease
- Prof. Martin Merkel
- Treatment
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9. Diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemias
- Prof. Anton Stalenhoef
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10. Key drug discovery challenges in cardiovascular medicine
- Dr. Dan Swerdlow
- Dr. Michael V. Holmes
- Genetics
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11. Moving from GWAS hits to functional variants
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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12. Heart disease genes and SNPs
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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13. Familial hypercholesterolaemia: genetic causes and treatment
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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14. Familial hypercholesterolaemia: cascade testing and monogenic vs. polygenic causes
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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16. Genetics of cardiovascular disease
- Prof. Philippa Talmud
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17. The genetics of CHD: moving research findings into patient benefit
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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19. The genetics of abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Dr. Seamus Harrison
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20. Genome scans for hypertension
- Prof. Patricia Munroe
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21. Telomeres and cardiovascular disease
- Dr. Jess Buxton
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23. Genetics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- Dr. Petros Syrris
- Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
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24. Gene-environment interaction and oxidative stress in cardiovascular disease
- Dr. Jeffrey Stephens
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25. Gene therapy as a therapeutic option for lipoprotein lipase deficiency
- Dr. Jan Albert Kuivenhoven
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26. Cardiovascular diseases: from epidemiology to nutritional interventions
- Dr. Antonis Zampelas
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27. Genetic testing for CHD risk: fact or fiction?
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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28. Pharmacogenetics: progress, pitfalls and clinical potential
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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29. Familial hyperchlolesterolaemia: a monogenic cause of early CHD
- Prof. Steve Humphries
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30. Lipid metabolism
- Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel
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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Talk outline
- Pharmacogenetics: vision of the future?
- Pharmacogenetics and clinical potential
- Major potential areas of patient benefit
- Treatment of high blood cholesterol by statins
- Pharmacogenetics of statin response (1)
- Pharmacogenetics of statin response (2)
- Better-than-average response: LDL plasma levels
- Better-than-average response: inflammation
- WOSCOPS study
- Pharmacogenetics - IL6 genotype and CHD risk
- Better-than-average response: conclusions
- Pharmacogenetics - pitfalls
- The REGRESS trial and CETP genotype (1)
- The REGRESS trial and CETP genotype (2)
- CETP TaqI meta-analysis
- CETP TaqI - pravastatin meta-analysis
- Use of pharmacogenetics to avoid side-effects
- Warfarin, CYP2C9*3 and avoiding bleeds
- The TPT trial and bleeds by CYP2C9 genotype
- Ethical concerns: pharmacogenetics and ethnicity
- Summary: progress, pitfalls and clinical potential
Topics Covered
- Therapeutic index, genetic variation determining codine and thiopurine metabolism
- Pharmacogenetics and statin response, involvement of HMG co-reductase
- Statin response in patients with FH
- Anti-inflammatory effects of statins and the IL-6 gene
- Pravastatin and CETP genotype
- Initial studies
- Pravastatin and CETP genotype
- Meta-analysis results
- Use of pharmacogenetics to avoid side effects
- Warfarin and CYP2C9 as an example
- Ethical concerns
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Humphries, S. (2008, November 24). Pharmacogenetics: progress, pitfalls and clinical potential [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved March 21, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/HWLE7854.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Financial Disclosures
- Professor Humphries is the Medical Director of StoreGene a UCL spin out company that offers DNA testing for Cardiovascular Disease risk including testing for FH. Professor Humphries is a consultant for Verve Therapeutics, a US based company that is developing gene-editing agents to treat individuals with hypercholesterolaemia, including those with FH.