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The pharmacogenetics of methotrexate in inflammatory bowel disease.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Oct 2005
Herrlinger Klaus R, Cummings J R Fraser, Barnardo Martin C N M, Schwab Matthias, Ahmad Tariq, Jewell Derek P
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OBJECTIVES: Methotrexate (MTX) is an effective immunosuppressive treatment in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) but its use is limited by unpredictable toxicity and efficacy. MTX metabolism is complex involving a number of enzymes. An individual's response to MTX may in part be genetically determined by functional genetic variation in genes encoding these enzymes. We report a pharmacogenetic evaluation of MTX...
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