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Normalized Testosterone Glucuronide as a Potential Urinary Biomarker for Highly Variable UGT2B17 in Children 7-18 Years.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 May 2020
Zhang Haeyoung, Basit Abdul, Wolford Chris, Chen Kuan-Fu, Gaedigk Andrea, Lin Yvonne S, Leeder J Steven, Prasad Bhagwat
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UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 2B17 (UGT2B17) is a highly variable androgen-metabolizing and drug-metabolizing enzyme. UGT2B17 exhibits a unique ontogeny profile characterized by a dramatic increase in hepatic protein expression from prepubertal age to adulthood. Age, sex, copy number variation (CNV), and single nucleotide polymorphisms only explain 26% of variability in protein expression, highlighting the need for...
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