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Genetic factors in aminoglycoside toxicity.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 28 Nov 1999
Fischel-Ghodsian N
Abstract excerpt
Ototoxicity is the major irreversible toxicity of aminoglycosides, and occurs both in a dose-dependent and idiosyncratic fashion. The idiosyncratic pathway is presumably due to genetic predispositions, and in 1993 we identified an inherited mutation that predisposes to aminoglycoside ototoxicity, the A1555G mutation in the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene. Seventeen-33% of patients with aminoglycoside...
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