The genetic origin of responses to drugs.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a072972

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The genetic origin of responses to drugs.

British medical bulletin - 1 Apr 1995

Waring R H, Emery P

Abstract excerpt

Individual variation in drug metabolism has been extensively investigated. Population studies have shown that there is a wide range in metabolising ability for all detoxification pathways; the distributions may be unimodal (Gaussian) or polymodal, with subsets of individuals who differ from the m...

Topics

Acetylation
Genetic Variation
Glucuronates
Humans
Methylation
Nitrogen
Oxidation-Reduction
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Sulfur

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