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High arsenic metabolic efficiency in AS3MT287Thr allele carriers.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Apr 2008
Hernández Alba, Xamena Noel, Sekaran Chandra, Tokunaga Hiroshi, Sampayo-Reyes Adriana, Quinteros Domingo, Creus Amadeu, Marcos Ricardo
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OBJECTIVES: Epidemiological data indicate the existence of wide interindividual differences in arsenic metabolism. It has recently been shown that arsenic(III)methyltransferase (AS3MT) enzyme catalyses the methylation of arsenite and monomethylarsonous acid (MMA). Thus, genetic variations in the AS3MT gene could explain, at least partly, the interindividual variation in the response to arsenic exposure. In an...
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