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Ancestry-based pharmacogenomics, adverse reactions and carbamazepine: is the FDA warning correct?
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Oct 2014
Payne P W
Abstract excerpt
In an effort to prevent potentially fatal adverse reactions to carbamazepine, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert in 2007 containing pharmacogenomic information, which is still in effect today. The alert states that carbamazepine-induced skin reactions are significantly more common in patients with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B*1502 allele and that these people are almost exclusively...
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