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Determination of CYP1A2 and NAT2 phenotypes in human populations by analysis of caffeine urinary metabolites.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Jun 1992
Butler M A, Lang N P, Young J F, Caporaso N E, Vineis P, Hayes R B, Teitel C H, Massengill J P, Lawsen M F, Kadlubar F F
Abstract excerpt
The wide variations in urinary bladder and colo-rectal cancer incidence in humans have been attributed in part to metabolic factors associated with exposure to carcinogenic aromatic and heterocyclic amines. Cytochrome P-4501A2 (CYP1A2), which catalyses N-oxidation, and acetyltransferase (NAT2) which catalyses N- and O-acetylation, both appear to be polymorphically distributed in human populations; and slow and...
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