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Oral anticoagulants: Pharmacogenetics Relationship between genetic and non-genetic factors.
Blood reviews - 1 May 2008
D'Andrea Giovanna, D'Ambrosio Rosa, Margaglione Maurizio
Abstract excerpt
Oral anticoagulants, the main drugs used for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic diseases, exhibit a greater than 10-fold inter-individual variability in the dose requirement to achieve a therapeutic response. The relationship between the dose prescribed and the individual response is regulated by genetic and environmental factors. In particularly, molecular analysis of two genes, encoding for the...
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