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Genetic coding variants in the niacin receptor, hydroxyl-carboxylic acid receptor 2, and response to niacin therapy.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Aug 2017
Tuteja Sony, Wang Lu, Dunbar Richard L, Chen Jinbo, DerOhannessian Stephanie, Marcovina Santica M, Elam Marshall, Lader Ellis, Rader Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Niacin has been used for seven decades to modulate plasma lipids, but its mechanism of action is still unclear. We sought to determine whether variants in the niacin receptor gene, hydroxyl-carboxylic receptor 2 (HCAR2), are associated with lipid response to treatment. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: Coding variants, rs7314976 (p.R311C) and rs2454727 (p.M317I), were genotyped in 2067 participants from the...
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