How your DNA affects Medications

Your strongest medication results: each of these medicines is covered by an official clinical guideline linking your genes to how the drug tends to work, and is worth bringing to your prescriber.

Taking this to a doctor? Your results come as a one-page PDF summary to hand to a prescriber. It unlocks with your medication results.

See how your genes affect your medications

Create an account and upload your DNA file to sort every medication by what your genes mean for it.

Every medication with a published pharmacogenomic guideline, grouped the way your own results will be. 105 medications. The verdicts stay hidden until your DNA is read.

May not work as well

Medications your genes clear faster, or activate more slowly, than most people will land here.

Abacavir

An antiviral used as part of combination treatment for HIV.

Capecitabine

A chemotherapy taken by mouth, used mainly for bowel and breast cancer.

BRAIN & MIND

Desflurane

An inhaled anaesthetic gas used to keep a patient asleep during surgery.

HEART & BLOOD

Hydralazine

Widens blood vessels to lower blood pressure, and is used in some types of heart failure.

ORGANS & SENSES

Lansoprazole

Reduces stomach acid, used for reflux, heartburn and stomach ulcers.

Nitrofurantoin

An antibiotic used for urinary tract infections.

Peginterferon alfa-2a

An injected antiviral used for long term hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

Plazomicin

An injected antibiotic for serious urinary tract infections.

Sevoflurane

An inhaled anaesthetic gas used to send a patient to sleep for surgery.

Tegafur

A chemotherapy taken by mouth that the body converts into fluorouracil.

Venlafaxine

An SNRI antidepressant used for depression and anxiety.

May affect you more strongly

Medications that build up higher or for longer in your body than a standard dose assumes will land here.

Acenocoumarol

A blood thinner used to prevent and treat blood clots.

Amikacin

An injected antibiotic for serious bacterial infections.

Atazanavir

Azathioprine

Damps down the immune system in autoimmune disease and after an organ transplant.

Citalopram

An SSRI antidepressant used for depression and anxiety.

Codeine

An opioid used for mild to moderate pain and for cough.

Desipramine

A tricyclic antidepressant.

Dibekacin

Eliglustat

A treatment for Gaucher disease, an inherited condition where a fatty substance builds up in the body.

Flecainide

Steadies an irregular or racing heartbeat.

Fluorouracil

A chemotherapy used for several cancers, including bowel, breast and skin.

Fluvoxamine

An SSRI antidepressant used mainly for obsessive compulsive disorder.

Haloperidol

An antipsychotic used for schizophrenia and for severe agitation.

Imipramine

A tricyclic antidepressant, also used for bedwetting in children.

Ivacaftor

A treatment for cystic fibrosis that works only for certain CFTR gene variants.

BONES & SKIN

Lornoxicam

An anti-inflammatory painkiller.

Mavacamten

A treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition where the heart muscle is too thick.

Methoxyflurane

An inhaled painkiller used for short term pain relief, often in emergency care.

Neomycin

An antibiotic used on the skin, in the gut, and before bowel surgery.

Ondansetron

Prevents and treats nausea and vomiting, often around chemotherapy or surgery.

Paromomycin

An antibiotic used for intestinal parasite infections.

Phenprocoumon

Piroxicam

An anti-inflammatory painkiller used mainly for arthritis.

Pravastatin

A statin that lowers cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Propafenone

Ribavirin

An antiviral used alongside other treatments for hepatitis C.

Rosuvastatin

Streptomycin

An injected antibiotic used for tuberculosis and some other infections.

Tafenoquine

An antimalarial used to prevent malaria and to stop it coming back.

Tenoxicam

Tobramycin

An antibiotic given by injection or inhaled, used for serious infections including in cystic fibrosis.

Trimipramine

A tricyclic antidepressant, also used to help with sleep.

Voriconazole

An antifungal used for serious fungal infections.

Warfarin

Nothing to change

Medications where your genes call for no different approach. On most files this is the largest group.

Allopurinol

Lowers uric acid in the blood to prevent gout attacks and some kidney stones.

Amitriptyline

A tricyclic antidepressant, also widely used for nerve pain and to prevent migraine.

Aripiprazole

An antipsychotic used for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and added to treatment for depression.

Atomoxetine

A non-stimulant treatment for ADHD.

Atorvastatin

Brexpiprazole

An antipsychotic used for schizophrenia and added to treatment for depression.

Carbamazepine

An anti-seizure medicine, also used for nerve pain and in bipolar disorder.

Celecoxib

An anti-inflammatory painkiller used for arthritis and other painful conditions.

Clomipramine

A tricyclic antidepressant used mainly for obsessive compulsive disorder.

Clopidogrel

An antiplatelet that keeps blood from clotting, used after a heart attack, stroke or stent.

Dapsone

An antibacterial used for leprosy and for some inflammatory skin conditions.

Dexlansoprazole

Reduces stomach acid, used for reflux and heartburn.

Doxepin

A tricyclic antidepressant, also used for itching and for sleep.

Efavirenz

Enflurane

An inhaled anaesthetic gas used during surgery.

Escitalopram

Flucytosine

An antifungal used for serious fungal infections such as cryptococcal meningitis.

Flurbiprofen

Fluvastatin

Fosphenytoin

An injected anti-seizure medicine used for prolonged or repeated seizures.

Gentamicin

Halothane

Hydrocodone

An opioid used for pain and for cough.

Ibuprofen

A common anti-inflammatory painkiller for pain, fever and inflammation.

Irinotecan

A chemotherapy given by infusion, used mainly for bowel cancer.

Isoflurane

Kanamycin

Lovastatin

Meloxicam

Mercaptopurine

A chemotherapy and immune suppressant used for leukaemia and inflammatory bowel disease.

Methylene blue

An antidote for methaemoglobinaemia, a condition where the blood cannot carry oxygen properly.

Metoprolol

A beta blocker that slows the heart, used for blood pressure, angina and after a heart attack.

Netilmicin

Nortriptyline

A tricyclic antidepressant, also used for nerve pain.

Omeprazole

Oxcarbazepine

An anti-seizure medicine used for epilepsy.

Pantoprazole

Paroxetine

Peginterferon alfa-2b

Pegloticase

An infusion that breaks down uric acid, used for severe gout when other treatments have not worked.

Phenytoin

Pimozide

An antipsychotic used for Tourette syndrome and some psychotic conditions.

Pitavastatin

Primaquine

An antimalarial that clears the form of malaria that hides in the liver.

Quetiapine

An antipsychotic used for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and added to treatment for depression.

Rasburicase

An infusion that rapidly lowers uric acid, used around cancer treatment.

Ribostamycin

An injected antibiotic for bacterial infections.

Risperidone

An antipsychotic used for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe agitation.

Sertraline

An SSRI antidepressant used for depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Simvastatin

Siponimod

A treatment for multiple sclerosis.

Succinylcholine

A short acting muscle relaxant used to place a breathing tube during anaesthesia.

Tacrolimus

Damps down the immune system to stop the body rejecting a transplanted organ.

Tamoxifen

A hormone treatment used for breast cancer that responds to oestrogen.

Thioguanine

A chemotherapy used for leukaemia.

Toluidine blue

A dye used as an antidote for methaemoglobinaemia and as a diagnostic stain.

Tramadol

An opioid used for moderate pain.

Tropisetron

Prevents and treats nausea and vomiting, often around chemotherapy.

Vortioxetine

An antidepressant used for depression.

Zuclopenthixol

An antipsychotic used for schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions.

Showing 1-30 of 360 drugs

Morphine

Opioids · Brain & Mind

Immunosuppressants · Immunity

Also sold as Prograf

Methadone

Statins · Metabolism

Also sold as Lipitor

Anticonvulsants · Brain & Mind

Also sold as Tegretol

Nicotine

Brain & Mind

Fentanyl

Neoral

Lamictal

Subutex

SERMs · Cancer

Antiplatelet Agents · Heart & Blood

Also sold as Plavix

Glucosylceramide Synthase Inhibitors · Metabolism

Also sold as Cerdelga

Antiarrhythmics · Heart & Blood

Also sold as Rythmol

SNRIs · Brain & Mind

Also sold as Effexor

Methotrexate

Antimetabolites · Immunity

Antipsychotics (class)

Antipsychotics · Brain & Mind

Also sold as Risperdal

Gemzar

Antimetabolites · Cancer

Also sold as 5-FU

Metformin

Biguanides · Metabolism

Antidepressants (class)

Antidepressants · Brain & Mind

Taxotere

Taxanes · Cancer

Zyprexa

Clozaril

Gleevec

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors · Cancer

SSRIs · Brain & Mind

Also sold as Paxil

Also sold as Zocor

Medical Disclaimer

This information is sourced from PharmGKB (Stanford University) and CPIC/DPWG guidelines and is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not a prescribing recommendation and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Never start, stop, or change a medication or dose based on it - always talk to your prescriber or pharmacist. Drug responses depend on many factors beyond genetics.