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Debrisoquine and mephenytoin oxidation in Sinhalese: a population study.
British journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Nov 1994
Weerasuriya K, Jayakody R L, Smith C A, Wolf C R, Tucker G T, Lennard M S
Abstract excerpt
The frequency distributions of the 0-8 h urinary metabolic ratios of debrisoquine and mephenytoin were measured in 111 healthy, unrelated Sinhalese resident in Sri Lanka. Blood samples were taken from 77 of these subjects for CYP2D6 genotyping. Bimodality in the distribution of the log10 debrisoquine/4-hydroxydebrisoquine ratio was not evident from visual inspection and by kernel density analysis. The results of...
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