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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2026

Pharmacogenomics and Opioid Efficacy in Sickle Cell Disease: Is the Field Ready for Precision Prescribing?

Cheedy Jaja, Daniel M Sop, Andrew Campbell, Wally R Smith

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Cheedy JajaDepartment of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219, USA.
Daniel M SopDepartment of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2076-8319
Andrew CampbellChildren's National Hospital, Washington, DC 20010, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8829-0043
Wally R SmithDepartment of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4122-5367

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain is a leading cause of morbidity and healthcare utilization in sickle cell disease (SCD), and opioids remain central to treating vaso-occlusive and chronic pain. Yet opioid response varies widely, raising the question of whether pharmacogenetic testing should inform opioid prescribing. Our review examined the PubMed literature on pharmacogenomics and opioid efficacy in SCD. We focus on CYP2D6 as the clearest current pharmacogenetic signal for codeine and tramadol, and assess SCD-specific implementation studies, preemptive testing, and African pharmacoequity. The current evidence supports targeted CYP2D6-informed prescribing in selected contexts rather than universal testing for all opioids, while highlighting the need to integrate genotype with pain phenotype, drug-drug interactions, liver function, and clinically grounded implementation studies, and better characterize African and African-ancestry pharmacogene variation.

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codeineCYP2D6opioid prescribingpain managementpharmacogenomicsprecision medicinesickle cell diseasetramadol

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PMID42645918
PMCPMC13514778

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