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[Clinical pharmacogenetics in the treatment of schizophrenia].
Nihon shinkei seishin yakurigaku zasshi = Japanese journal of psychopharmacology - 1 Jun 2005
Saito Manabu, Yasui-Furukori Norio, Kaneko Sunao
Abstract excerpt
Numerous investigations on metabolic enzymes, cytochrome P450 (CYP), have been conducted since 1990. In the psychiatric field, the focus has been on CYP2D6, which is a major enzyme involved in metabolism of antidepressants and antipsychotics. Poor metabolizers (deficit metabolizers) for CYP2D6 represent 7% among Caucasians, while they accouut for less than 1% of Asians. The frequency of a mutated allele for...
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