About the Authors

Kanoot Jaruthamsophon

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand

Thanya Sripo

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand

Chonlaphat Sukasem

Affiliations Division of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Laboratory for Pharmacogenomics, Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center (SDMC), Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Pornprot Limprasert

Lpornpro@medicine.psu.ac.th

Affiliation Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand

Competing Interests

Authors Pornprot Limprasert and Kanoot Jaruthamsophon declare that they are the inventors of a patent application titled “Genetic screening kit predicting drug reaction from carbamazepine,” submitted to the Department of Intellectual Property, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand (No. 1301007163), applied for by Prince of Songkla University on 17 December 2013. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJ TS PL. Performed the experiments: KJ TS CS. Analyzed the data: KJ PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS. Wrote the paper: KJ PL.