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Pharmacogenetic screening and therapeutic drugs.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Jan 2002
Steimer Werner, Potter Julia M
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BACKGROUND: Pharmacogenetics is the science of the influence of heredity on pharmacological response. ISSUES: The cost of severe adverse drug reactions in individuals has been estimated in the US alone to be in excess of US$4 billion. It has been argued that in a significant proportion of cases, the efficacy and toxicity profiles of drug therapy would be substantially improved in individuals if characteristics...
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