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Pharmacogenetic effect of an endothelin-1 haplotype on response to bucindolol therapy in chronic heart failure.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Jan 2009
Taylor Matthew R G, Slavov Dobromir, Humphrey Kurt, Zhao Lan, Cockroft Jennifer, Zhu Xiao, Lavori Philip, Bristow Michael R, Mestroni Luisa, Lazzeroni Laura C
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BACKGROUND: Beta-blocker therapy has become a mainstay therapy for the over 5 million patients with chronic heart failure in the United States. Variation in clinical response to beta-blockers is a well-known phenomenon and may be because of genetic differences between patients. We hypothesized that variation in genes of the endothelin system mediate the clinical response to beta-blockers in heart failure....
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