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Genetic mechanisms for duplication and multiduplication of the human CYP2D6 gene and methods for detection of duplicated CYP2D6 genes.
Gene - 21 Jan 1999
Lundqvist E, Johansson I, Ingelman-Sundberg M
Abstract excerpt
The polymorphic CYP2D6 gene determines the rates at which several different classes of clinically important drugs are metabolized in vivo. A specific phenotype whereby a subject metabolizes drugs very rapidly (ultrarapid metabolizer, UM) has been shown to be caused by the presence of multiple active CYP2D6 genes on one allele. Hitherto, individuals with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 13 CYP2D6 genes in tandem have been...
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