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Significance of MDR1 gene polymorphism C3435T in predicting drug response in epilepsy.
Epilepsy research - 1 Feb 2014
Shaheen Uzma, Prasad D K V, Sharma Vandana, Suryaprabha T, Ahuja Y R, Jyothy A, Munshi Anjana
Abstract excerpt
Antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment in epilepsy is often compromised by the unpredictability of efficacy and inter-individual variability among patients, which at least in part is the result of genetic variation. The idea to determine an individual's response to a prescribed medicine came into inception around 29 years ago. Pharmacogenetics is used to predict the drug response and efficacy, as well as potential...
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