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Genetic factors in aminoglycoside toxicity.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Jan 2005
Fischel-Ghodsian Nathan
Abstract excerpt
Ototoxicity is the major irreversible toxicity of aminoglycosides, and it occurs both in a dose-dependent and idiosyncratic fashion. The idiosyncratic pathway is presumably due to genetic predispositions, and an inherited mutation in the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene that predisposes carriers to aminoglycoside ototoxicity was identified in 1993. Up to a third of patients with aminoglycoside ototoxicity...
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