Article
[Clinical relevance of drug metabolism polymorphisms].
Therapeutische Umschau. Revue therapeutique - 1 Sept 2000
Mikus G
Abstract excerpt
Individual variation in drug response is a substantial clinical problem. Research in pharmacogenetics is currently evolving in two directions, firstly to identify genes and gene products associated with certain diseases, which may serve as targets for new drugs, and secondly to identify genes and allelic variants of genes that affect the expected and adverse response to current and future drugs. In that respect...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Arylamine N-Acetyltransferase
- Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
- Drug Resistance
- Enzymes
- Humans
- Pharmacogenetics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Genetic
