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Association of functional COMT Val108/Met polymorphism with smoking cessation in a nicotine replacement therapy.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Dec 2012
Sun Hongqiang, Guo Song, Chen Dafang, Yang Fude, Zou Yizhuang, Di Xiaolan, Cao Yanjun, Kosten Thomas, Lu Lin, Zhang Xiang Yang
Abstract excerpt
Nicotine replacement treatment (NRT) can be efficacious for smoking cessation, but used by only a minority of smokers in China. Pharmacogenetic matching may improve treatment outcomes for NRT in subgroups of smokers. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of sublingual nicotine tablets (SNT) for smoking cessation and the association of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genotype with efficacy in this smoking...
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