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Genetic susceptibility to adverse effects of drugs and environmental toxicants. The role of the CYP family of enzymes.
Mutation research - 1 Oct 2001
Ingelman-Sundberg M
Abstract excerpt
The majority of cytochrome P450 (CYP)-dependent xenobiotic metabolism is carried out by polymorphic and inducible enzymes which can cause abolished, quantitatively or qualitatively altered or enhanced drug metabolism. Stable duplication, multi-duplication or amplification of active genes, most likely in response to dietary components causing a selection of alleles with multiple genes, has been described. Several...
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