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GeneSight is just one important piece of the puzzle.

The Arc of the Ozarks, Missouri

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The GeneSight test results appear straightforward.

I love the color coding, the green, yellow, and red, but some parents or families interpret that to mean good, okay, and bad. And so for a provider, we spend time with our patients explaining this isn’t a code regarding what medicine is good. It’s a message to the provider about what I need to do if I’m going to prescribe that medication.

So green if if I recommend a medicine in the green zone on your child’s test results, it just means that I really don’t need to adjust it higher, lower, whatever. There are no genetic issues which I need to take into consideration and make an adjustment.

And yellow and red really just tells me the degree to which I may need to consider some adjustments. And so, sometimes I worry that parents or even other providers who are not as educated about GeneSight, or other pharmacogenomic tests, they just assume, well, that if if my child takes a medication in the green zone, they’re good to go. And that’s just not the case.

We educate our families that this information is more important for the provider, in regards to what medicine we choose and how we prescribe it. I find the GeneSight test results to be very helpful as a provider. I’ve learned how to interpret them, and I think they’re great. This is just one important piece of the puzzle when you when you’re trying to come to a conclusion about what medication is best.

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