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Use of Pharmacogenetic Information in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Jan 2017
Friede Kevin, Li Josephine, Voora Deepak
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In 1964, Robert A. O'Reilly's research group identified members of a family who required remarkably high warfarin doses (up to 145 mg/day, 20 times the average dose) to achieve appropriate anticoagulation. Since this time, pharmacogenetics has become a mainstay of cardiovascular science, and genetic variants have been implicated in several fundamental classes of medications used in cardiovascular...
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