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Pharmacogenomics in cardiovascular disease: the role of single nucleotide polymorphisms in improving drug therapy.
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy - 1 Dec 2005
Mango Ruggiero, Vecchione Lucia, Raso Barbara, Borgiani Paola, Brunetti Ercole, Mehta Jawahar L, Lauro Renato, Romeo Francesco, Novelli Giuseppe
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Pharmacogenomics is the study of how an individual's genetic inheritance affects the body's response to drugs. Pharmacogenomics holds the promise that drugs might one day be tailor-made for individuals and adapted to an individual's genetic makeup. Several studies have shown that both adverse and beneficial responses to cardiovascular drugs can be influenced by single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes coding for...
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