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Atazanavir

The only entry here where the consequence is entirely cosmetic and entirely consequential: visible jaundice that harms nobody, and makes people stop taking a drug that was working.

What this drug connects to

Atazanavir Condition: CCR5-Delta32 and HIV-1 Resistance CCR5-Delta32 and HIV-1 Resistance Condition Variant: rs887829 · UGT1A1 rs887829 · UGT1A1 Variant Variant: rs6742078 · UGT1A1 rs6742078 · UGT1A1 Variant Variant: rs11563251 · UGT1A1 rs11563251 · UGT1A1 Variant Atazanavir Atazanavir Antiretrovir…

The genes involved

UGT1A1

CCR5-Delta32 and HIV-1 Resistance →

Atazanavir blocks the enzyme that clears bilirubin, and in somebody who already clears it slowly — the UGT1A1 genotype behind Gilbert syndrome — the result is visible jaundice. It is not dangerous. It is, however, the reason people stop taking the drug, and CPIC wrote a guideline about that rather than about toxicity: if a person carries the low-activity genotype, consider a different agent, especially where jaundice would be a reason to discontinue. This is the one note on the site where the pharmacogenomic consequence is entirely cosmetic and entirely consequential.

Whose work this rests on

Every guideline above was written by people. Named here because they are contributors to this page in the same sense anybody else on this site is.

Variants MyGeneLog reports for these genes

These are the positions in your own file that carry the genes above. Not every gene in a guideline is one we report — where that is the case the gene appears above without a variant here, and the note says so.

Bilirubin levels

UGT1A1 · rs887829

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Bilirubin levels

UGT1A1 · rs6742078

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LDL cholesterol

UGT1A1 · rs11563251

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This page is educational and contains no dosing information. Where a clinical guideline covers one of these gene-drug pairs it is written for prescribers and works through validated algorithms alongside clinical monitoring. Nothing here is a reason to start, stop, or change a medication — that conversation belongs with the clinician or pharmacist managing your treatment.