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Candidate gene analysis identifies a polymorphism in HLA-DQB1 associated with clozapine-induced agranulocytosis.
The Journal of clinical psychiatry - 1 Apr 2011
Athanasiou Maria C, Dettling Michael, Cascorbi Ingolf, Mosyagin Igor, Salisbury Benjamin A, Pierz Kerri A, Zou Wei, Whalen Heidi, Malhotra Anil K, Lencz Todd, Gerson Stanton L, Kane John M, Reed Carol R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Clozapine is considered to be the most efficacious drug to treat schizophrenia, although it is underutilized, partially due to a side effect of agranulocytosis. This analysis of 74 candidate genes was designed to identify an association between sequence variants and clozapine-induced agranulocytosis (CIA). METHOD: Blood and medical history were collected for 33 CIA cases and 54 clozapine-treated...
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