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Genetic and environmental factors causing variation in drug response.
Mutation research - 1 Apr 1991
Vesell E S
Abstract excerpt
Large pharmacokinetic variations, ranging in magnitude from 4- to 40-fold, often exist among the members of a given population. These variations create differences in risk of cancer by accelerating metabolic activation of certain environmental carcinogens in some subjects, while retarding such rates in other subjects. To identify specific genetic and environmental causes of large interindividual variations in...
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