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[Genetic polymorphism in human drug metabolism].
Nihon yakurigaku zasshi. Folia pharmacologica Japonica - 1 Feb 1993
Yamazoe Y, Nagata K
Abstract excerpt
During the last decade, the influences of genetic factors on individual drug metabolizing capacity in humans have been characterized in fairly great detail at the molecular level. Debrisoquine/sparteine and mephenytoin polymorphisms are now known to be derived from defects in the human liver of specific forms of microsomal CYP (P450 or previously termed cytochrome P-450), CYP2D6 and CYP2C9 (2C18), respectively....
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