A Curated Pharmacogenomic Allele Catalog for Sub-Saharan African Populations
SULAIMAN, M. A.; Oyeyemi, B. F.
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Sub-Saharan African populations carry pharmacogenomic alleles poorly represented in the European-derived reference panels underlying most clinical genotyping tools. We present a curated, machine-readable catalog of nine actionable alleles across six pharmacogenes (CYP2D6, CYP2B6, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, CYP3A5, NAT2) with African-specific frequency ranges, functional annotations, and evidence levels derived from reanalysis of 661 high-coverage whole-genome sequences across seven 1000 Genomes Project African populations. Direct comparison against PharmCAT v3.4.0 shows that CYP2D6 produces zero diplotype calls (0/661 samples callable) due to monomorphic reference positions absent from standard variant-only VCF output, a known limitation whose consequences for African allele carriers had not been reported. afripharmagen's reduced-position strategy identifies 243 CYP2D617 and 134 CYP2D629 carriers from the same input. For CYP2B6, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and NAT2, both tools show concordance of 95-100%. Frequency gradients (CYP2B66: 30-50%; CYP2D617: 15-35% in West Africa; CYP3A5*1: 60-95%) translate directly into prescribing risk for efavirenz, tramadol, tacrolimus, and isoniazid. Pharmacogenomic decision support in African settings must incorporate population-specific allele definitions and input-format-aware strategies.
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