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Significant interethnic differencies in functional variants of PON1 and P2RY12 genes in Roma and Hungarian population samples.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Jan 2015
Janicsek Ingrid, Sipeky Csilla, Bene Judit, Duga Balazs, Melegh Bela I, Melegh Bela, Sümegi Katalin, Jaromi Luca, Magyari Lili, Melegh Bela
Abstract excerpt
Antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel is one of the most common therapies given to patients worldwide. However, the clinical efficacy and toxicity of clopidogrel is not constant in every patient due to interindividual variations. There are several factors that contribute to these interindividual differencies such as SNPs in genes of specific receptors and enzymes. PON1 (paraoxonase 1) plays an important role in...
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