Thank you for this excellent summary regarding this testing including the relevant links.
I have seen these tests cause a lot of problems because these tests do not accurately predict a person’s response to psychiatric medications, but patients are told that they do. I have seen patients leave excellent psychiatrists, because they happen to see a primary care doctor who recommends the test and then they doubt their psychiatrist figuring they must be behind the times or lazy. What they don’t realize is that the doctor who gave them the test is the one who hasn’t read the studies, and who unfortunately has fallen for the hype that the test rep sold them.
I have met patients who have finally found the right med after years of avoiding this med because “The GeneSight test said it wouldn’t work.” Tragic.