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The drug-transporter gene MDR1 C3435T and G2677T/A polymorphisms and the risk of multidrug-resistant epilepsy in Turkish children.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Jan 2014
Seven Mehmet, Batar Bahadir, Unal Selin, Yesil Gozde, Yuksel Adnan, Guven Mehmet
Abstract excerpt
One-third of all individuals with epilepsy are resistant to antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment. Antiepileptic treatment response has been suggested to be modulated by genetic polymorphisms of drug efflux transporters. Several polymorphic variants within the multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) gene, which encodes the major transmembrane efflux transporter P-glycoprotein, have been proposed to be associated with AED...
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