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CYP3A5*3 and CYP3A4*18 single nucleotide polymorphisms in a Chinese population.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Mar 2005
Hu Yong-Fang, He Jun, Chen Guo-Lin, Wang Dan, Liu Zhong-Qi, Zhang Che, Duan Li-Fang, Zhou Hong-Hao
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BACKGROUND: Human cytochrome P450 3A evolved to catalyze the metabolism of numerous common therapy drugs and endogenous molecules. Members of the CYP3A are the majority expressed in human liver and intestine, and there are marked interindividual differences in their protein expression and activity. The activity of CYP3A enzyme in Chinese is highly variable, exceeding 14-fold, and contributes greatly to variation...
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