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Record W7105695419 · doi:10.1136/bmjdhai-2025-000134

Retrospective evaluation of a machine learning model to facilitate pharmacogenetic testing

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Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ Digital Health & AI · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
TopicPharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
Canadian institutionsToronto General HospitalInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesHospital for Sick Children
FundersHospital for Sick Children
KeywordsPharmacogeneticsLogistic regressionMedical prescriptionEpidemiologyRetrospective cohort studyCohortGradient boosting

Abstract

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Objectives To describe the epidemiology of nine medications with pharmacogenetic guidance (targeted medications) and frequency of pharmacogenetic testing; and to develop a retrospective machine learning (ML) model to predict prescription of targeted medications within 3 and 6 months of admission. Methods and Analysis For the epidemiology aim, the cohort included patients prescribed at least one targeted medication. Pharmacogenetic testing rates were determined before and after first targeted medication prescription. For the ML aim, the cohort included all inpatient admissions. Outcome was receipt of a targeted medication within 3 or 6 months. Models were trained using L2-regularised logistic regression and two gradient boosting machine frameworks (LightGBM and XGBoost). Data were temporally split into training (80%), validation (10%) and test (10%) sets. Results For the epidemiology cohort, 4520 patients were prescribed at least one targeted medication. Only 4.3% (n=194) had pharmacogenetic testing performed at any point, and only 1.0% (n=44) completed testing before the first prescription. For the ML cohort, 57 368 admissions were included. LightGBM was the best-performing ML model. For the prediction of prescription of a targeted medication at 3 and 6 months, area under the receiver operating characteristic curves was 0.926 (95% CI 0.911 to 0.939) and 0.922 (95% CI 0.911 to 0.932), respectively. Area under the precision recall curves was 0.477 (95% CI 0.462 to 0.495) and 0.450 (95% CI 0.411 to 0.494), respectively. Conclusion Only 1% of patients receiving a targeted medication had pharmacogenetic testing before the medication order. We developed an ML model with acceptable performance to predict targeted medication administration with the goal of facilitating earlier pharmacogenomic testing.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.649
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.320
GPT teacher head0.526
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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