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Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography analysis of the DPYD gene in patients with lethal 5-fluorouracil toxicity.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Aug 2003
Ezzeldin Hany, Johnson Martin R, Okamoto Yoshihiro, Diasio Robert
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Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) enzyme deficiency is a pharmacogenetic syndrome with possible fatal outcome following 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) treatment. Several studies examining the molecular basis for DPD deficiency have identified over 30 sequence variations in the DPYD gene (which codes f...
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