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Genetic considerations.
Advances in cardiology - 1 Jan 2012
Price Matthew J
Abstract excerpt
Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and a P2Y(12) receptor antagonist improves outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome and in those treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and a coronary stent. Candidate gene and genome-wide association studies have found that common genetic polymorphisms of the cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2C19 isoenzyme that result in a loss of functional activity are...
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