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Pharmacogenetics-guided dose modifications of antidepressants.
Clinics in laboratory medicine - 1 Dec 2008
Seeringer Angela, Kirchheiner Julia
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The efficacy of a drug therapy is influenced by many different factors, such as age, weight, comorbidity, and comedication, which vary among patients, as do the fixed parameters of sex and genotype. Enzymes involved in drug metabolism are genetically polymorphic, meaning that their activities differ depending on certain genotypes. Drugs are metabolized slowly in individuals carrying a genetic polymorphism that...
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