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CYP1A2 is more variable than previously thought: a genomic biography of the gene behind the human drug-metabolizing enzyme.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Nov 2010
Browning Sarah L, Tarekegn Ayele, Bekele Endashaw, Bradman Neil, Thomas Mark G
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: CYP1A2 metabolizes various drugs, endogenous compounds and procarcinogens. As human genetic diversity has been reported to decrease with distance from Ethiopia, we resequenced CYP1A2 in five Ethiopian ethnic groups representing a rough northeast to southwest transect across Ethiopia to establish: (i) what variation exists in comparison with what is already known globally and (ii) what...
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