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Characterization of a genotype previously designated as CYP2A6 D-type: CYP2A6*4B, another entire gene deletion allele of the CYP2A6 gene in Japanese.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Aug 2002
Ariyoshi Noritaka, Sekine Hiromi, Saito Katsuhiko, Kamataki Tetsuya
Abstract excerpt
CYP2A6 is known as an enzyme responsible for the metabolism of several clincally used drugs such as tegafur. Previously, we found two novel genotypes of the CYP2A6 gene, D-type and E-type, and the E-type was clarified to be homozygous for the CYP2A6*4A allele. On the other hand, since the D-type was reported to lack regions from at least intron 5 to a part of exon 9 of the CYP2A6 gene, it caused a...
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