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. 2016 Apr 23;23(4):758–765. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw030

Table 3:

The Scoring System That Evaluator Used to Score the Drug Lists

Score Description
3 Evidence exists to add to reference set (Gene Sheets).
Criteria:
Either:
  • Drug directly targets and inhibits the gene

  • OR

  • Drug indirectly targets the gene by inhibiting downstream pathway members

  • AND

  • There is evidence that alterations in the gene sensitize cells to drugs inhibiting the indirect target

2 Gene name or its alias is mentioned with the drug or its synonym, but evidence is not sufficient to add to reference set.
Categories
High relevance:
  • Indirectly targets the gene but there is no level of evidence for its use in tumors with alterations in the gene

  • Partial response

  • Associated with resistance

  • Effective only in combination

Low relevance:
  • Mutation negative (patients negative for mutations in a gene were treated with a drug)

  • Opposite association (text suggests that the gene target affects the drug, rather than vice versa)

  • Discusses an isoform or artificial version of the gene

  • Derivative of the drug is being discussed (not actual drug indicated in evaluation)

  • Association unclear

  • Drug targets molecule upstream of original target (not likely to be effective)

  • No effect

No relevance:
  • Not a drug/not used as a drug

  • No relationship/effect untested

  • Drug is used as a carcinogen/would never be used to treat cancer

  • Opposite effect (the drug results in increased activity of the target gene)

  • Not classified:

1 No mention of the drug and/or gene or its alias.