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Pharmacogenetics: an opportunity for a safer and more efficient pharmacotherapy.
Journal of internal medicine - 1 Sept 2001
Ingelman-Sundberg M
Abstract excerpt
Drug treatment is in many cases ineffective. Besides patients who do not respond to the treatment despite receiving expensive drugs, adverse drug reactions (ADRs) as a consequence of the treatment, is estimated to cost the US society 100 billion USD and over 100,000 deaths per year. Pharmacogenetics is the discipline which takes the patient's genetic information of drug transporters, drug metabolizing enzymes and...
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