Pharmacogenetics and drug-induced arrhythmias

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Drugs are widely recognized to vary in the beneficial and undesirable effects they produce in human subjects. The understanding that variants (polymorphisms and mutations) in the human genome are common and may well modulate both disease and its response to drugs, is a critical new concept in understanding mechanisms of drug action and their variability in human subjects. Variability can arise because of...

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