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Cytochrome P450 2C19*2 polymorphism and cardiovascular recurrences in patients taking clopidogrel: a meta-analysis.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Jun 2011
Sofi F, Giusti B, Marcucci R, Gori A M, Abbate R, Gensini G F
Abstract excerpt
Several polymorphisms in genes that encode platelet components (receptors or enzymes), or cytochrome P450 enzyme isoforms, involved in clopidogrel metabolism, have been proposed as possible mechanisms for nonresponsiveness to clopidogrel. Among them, a great deal of attention has been focused on the loss-of-function CYP2C19(*)2 (or 681 G > A) polymorphism. We performed a meta-analysis of all the prospective...
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