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. 2021 Apr 8;26(7):2776–2804. doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01061-w

Fig. 3. Therapeutics: matching with medications.

Fig. 3

A Pharmacogenomics. See also Tables 3 and S4. B New repurposed drugs using the panels of markers. See also Table 4. There is overlap between depression, bipolar and mania biomarkers. RPL3 could be targeted to treat mania with less risk of inducing depression. Six biomarkers (CD47, FANCF, GLO1, HNRNPDL, OLFM1, SMAD7) could be targeted to treat depression with less risk of inducing mania. Other six biomarkers (DOCK10, GLS, NRG1, PRPS1, TMEM161B, SLC6A4) could be targeted to treat depression fast/powerfully, but may induce mania, so need to be coupled with a mood stabilizer or antipsychotic. An example of the latter is SLC6A4. SSRIs should thus be used cautiously in monotherapy to treat depression, and clinicians should have a low threshold for adding mood stabilizers.