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Individualized therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease: potential impact of pharmacogenetic testing based on CYP2C19.
Molecular diagnosis & therapy - 1 Aug 2012
Furuta Takahisa, Sugimoto Mitsushige, Shirai Naohito
Abstract excerpt
The main therapeutic agent for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). Plasma levels and the acid inhibitory effect of PPIs depend on the activity of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2C19, which is polymorphic. Genotypes of CYP2C19 are classified into three groups: rapid metabolizers (RMs: *1/*1), intermediate metabolizers (IMs: *1/*X), and poor metabolizers (PMs: *X/*X), where *1 and X...
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