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Pharmacogenetics of warfarin.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 2010
Kamali Farhad, Wynne Hilary
Abstract excerpt
Warfarin is a drug with a narrow therapeutic index and a wide interindividual variability in dose requirement. Because it is difficult to predict an accurate dose for an individual, patients starting the drug are at risk of thromboembolism or bleeding associated with underdosing or overdosing, respectively. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the cytochrome P450 2C9 (CYP2C9) and vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR)...
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