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- Title
Heterogeneity in Fragile X Syndrome Highlights the Need for Precision Medicine-Based Treatments.
- Authors
Verdura, Edgard; Pérez-Cano, Laura; Sabido-Vera, Rubén; Guney, Emre; Hyvelin, Jean-Marc; Durham, Lynn; Gomez-Mancilla, Baltazar
- Abstract
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most frequent monogenic cause of autism or intellectual disability, and research on its pathogenetic mechanisms has provided important insights on this neurodevelopmental condition. Nevertheless, after 30 years of intense research, efforts to develop treatments have been mostly unsuccessful. The aim of this review is to compile evidence from existing research pointing to clinical, genetic, and therapeutic response heterogeneity in FXS and highlight the need of implementing precision medicine-based treatments. We comment on the high genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity present in FXS, as a contributing factor to the difficulties found during drug development. Given that several clinical trials have showed a non-negligeable fraction of positive responders to drugs targeting core FXS symptoms, we propose that success of clinical trials can be achieved by tackling the underlying heterogeneity in FXS by accurately stratifying patients into drug-responder subpopulations. These precision medicine-based approaches, which can be first applied to well-defined monogenic diseases such as FXS, can also serve to define drug responder profiles based on specific biomarkers or phenotypic features that can associate patients with different genetic backgrounds to a same candidate drug, thus repositioning a same drug for a larger number of patients with NDDs.
- Subjects
FRAGILE X syndrome; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; MEDICAL research; HETEROGENEITY; DRUG repositioning; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021, Vol 12, p1
- ISSN
1664-0640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fpsyt.2021.722378