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ACE phenotyping as a first step toward personalized medicine for ACE inhibitors. Why does ACE genotyping not predict the therapeutic efficacy of ACE inhibition?
Pharmacology & therapeutics - 1 Mar 2007
Danser A H Jan, Batenburg Wendy W, van den Meiracker Anton H, Danilov Sergei M
Abstract excerpt
Angiotensin (Ang)-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are widely used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Not all patients respond to ACE inhibitors, and it has been suggested that genetic variation might be a useful marker to predict the therapeutic efficacy of these drugs. In particular, the ACE insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism has been investigated in this regard. Despite a decade of intensive...
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