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CYP2C9*1B promoter polymorphisms, in linkage with CYP2C19*2, affect phenytoin autoinduction of clearance and maintenance dose.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Feb 2010
Chaudhry Amarjit S, Urban Thomas J, Lamba Jatinder K, Birnbaum Angela K, Remmel Rory P, Subramanian Murali, Strom Stephen, You Joyce H, Kasperaviciute Dalia, Catarino Claudia B, Radtke Rodney A, Sisodiya Sanjay M, Goldstein David B, Schuetz Erin G
Abstract excerpt
The commonly prescribed antiepileptic drug phenytoin has a narrow therapeutic range and wide interindividual variability in clearance explained in part by CYP2C9 and CYP2C19 coding variants. After finding a paradoxically low urinary phenytoin metabolite (S)/(R) ratio in subjects receiving phenyto...
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