Building the case for PGx testing
January 2013—Mammals have a striking range of gestation periods, from the 12 days and 31 days of the opossum and rabbit to the 266 days and 360 days of the human and whale. Laboratory tests, too, take shorter or longer amounts of time to be delivered into routine clinical practice, with pharmacogenomics beginning to look like the elephant—more than 600 days’ gestation—of laboratory testing. Our first major discussion of this topic was in 2005, and the clinical pathology world had been “expecting” its arrival for some time before that.