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5'-Flanking region polymorphisms of CYP2C9 and their relationship to S-warfarin metabolism in white and Japanese patients.
Blood - 15 Apr 2004
Takahashi Harumi, Ieiri Ichiro, Wilkinson Grant R, Mayo Gail, Kashima Toshitaka, Kimura Sosuke, Otsubo Kenji, Echizen Hirotoshi
Abstract excerpt
White and Japanese patients require different warfarin dosages to achieve therapeutic anticoagulation, but this can be only partly explained by genetic variability in the coding region of CYP2C9-a critical enzyme in the drug's metabolism. Accordingly, analysis of the -2.1-kb 5'-flanking region of...
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