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Individualized medicine - implementation of pharmacogenetic diagnostics in antidepressant drug treatment of major depressive disorders.
Pharmacopsychiatry - 1 Nov 2003
Kirchheiner J, Bertilsson L, Bruus H, Wolff A, Roots I, Bauer M
Abstract excerpt
Antidepressant drug therapy is characterized by a high rate of therapeutic failure. There is increasing evidence that genetic factors are contributing to the inter-individual variability in antidepressant drug response. Genetic variability is described in both the pharmacokinetic part of drug action as well as in pharmacodynamic structures mediating drug effects. Genetic polymorphisms in drug metabolizing enzymes...
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