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Addressing phenoconversion: the Achilles' heel of personalized medicine.
British journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Feb 2015
Shah Rashmi R, Smith Robert L
Abstract excerpt
Phenoconversion is a phenomenon that converts genotypic extensive metabolizers (EMs) into phenotypic poor metabolizers (PMs) of drugs, thereby modifying their clinical response to that of genotypic PMs. Phenoconversion, usually resulting from nongenetic extrinsic factors, has a significant impact on the analysis and interpretation of genotype-focused clinical outcome association studies and personalizing therapy...
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