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Purine biosynthetic pathway genes and methotrexate response in rheumatoid arthritis patients among north Indians.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Oct 2009
Sharma Shruti, Das Mitashree, Kumar Ashok, Marwaha Vishal, Shankar Subramanian, Singh Paramjeet, Raghu Padmanabhan, Aneja Ritu, Grover Rahul, Arya Vivek, Dhir Varun, Gupta Rajiva, Kumar Uma, Juyal Ramesh C, K Thelma B
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OBJECTIVE: Inter-individual variations to methotrexate (MTX) response among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have been attributed to clinical heterogeneity and genetic variations influencing MTX pharmacology. In this study, we analyzed the association of polymorphisms in ATIC, AMPD1, ADA, and ADORA2A from the purine biosynthetic pathway with MTX response in RA patients from north India. We also assessed the...
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