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Validation of tacrolimus equation to predict troughs using genetic and clinical factors.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Jul 2012
Passey Chaitali, Birnbaum Angela K, Brundage Richard C, Schladt David P, Oetting William S, Leduc Robert E, Israni Ajay K, Guan Weihua, Matas Arthur J, Jacobson Pamala A
Abstract excerpt
AIM: Tacrolimus is an immunosuppressant used in transplantation. This article reports the validation of the authors' recently developed genetics-based tacrolimus equation that predicts troughs. METHODS: Validation was performed in an independent cohort of 795 kidney transplant recipients receiving tacrolimus. The performance of the equation to predict initial troughs was assessed by calculating the bias and...
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