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Functional pharmacogenetics/genomics of human cytochromes P450 involved in drug biotransformation.
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry - 1 Nov 2008
Zanger Ulrich M, Turpeinen Miia, Klein Kathrin, Schwab Matthias
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the elimination routes for the 200 drugs that are sold most often by prescription count in the United States. The majority (78%) of the hepatically cleared drugs were found to be subject to oxidative metabolism via cytochromes P450 of the families 1, 2 and 3, with major contributions from CYP3A4/5 (37% of drugs) followed by CYP2C9 (17%), CYP2D6 (15%), CYP2C19 (10%), CYP1A2 (9%), CYP2C8 (6%), and...
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