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Duplication of CYP2D6 predicts high clearance of desipramine but high clearance does not predict duplication of CYP2D6.
European journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 May 2001
Bergmann T K, Bathum L, Brosen K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Duplication of CYP2D6 causes very rapid metabolism of CYP2D6 substrates such as desipramine. However, we have previously shown that in the Danish population, only about 15% of very rapid metabolisers, defined as subjects with a metabolic ratio of sparteine of 0.15 or less, carried a duplicated allele. The question is whether gene duplication is a relatively rare cause (perhaps predictor) of very rapid...
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