PS1-31: Assessing the Potential for Research on Genetics of Drug Induced Liver Injury in the HMORN

Background/Aims Drug Induced Liver Injury (DILI) is a major cause of liver failure in the US and the leading reason for failure of investigational drugs in clinical trials, lack of drug approval, and post-market withdrawal of approved drugs. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified variations within the major histocompatibility complex in Caucasians to be linked with flucloxacillin and lumiracoxib-related liver injury. The need for replication of these findings and extension of these investigations to other drug exposures and other ethnic groups will require substantial case numbers with supporting medical record documentation. With support from The Serious Adverse Event Consortium, an international consortium led by the pharmaceutical industry in conjunction with the FDA, we conducted a feasibility study to evaluate the potential for using electronic clinical and administrative data from two HMORN sites to identify provisional DILI cases.