A race-based detour to personalized medicine
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Pharmacogenetics, Personalized Medicine, and Race
Metabolic pathways — the chains of chemical reactions that occur in each cell in the body — are affected by a wide range of DNA mutations, including single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); gene deletions, duplications, and insertions; mutations in the regulatory elements of genes; and variations in gene copy number. The identification of gene variants (alleles) that influence drug metabolism is...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.109-4133