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Cytochrome P450 CYP2C19 genotypes in Nigerian sickle-cell disease patients and normal controls.
Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics - 1 Aug 2010
Babalola C P, Adejumo O, Ung D, Xu Z, Odetunde A, Kotila T, Falusi A G, Nagar S
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Subjects with different CYP2C19 genotypes may metabolize proguanil, a pro-drug used for malaria prophylaxis differently and the frequency of the different alleles may be different in patients with sickle-cell disease (SCD) and normal controls. The objective of this study was to evaluate CYP2C19 *1, *2 and *3 allele and genotype frequencies in Nigerian normal controls and SCD patients,...
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