The pharmacogenomics of warfarin safety and effectiveness in children

Use of the anticoagulant warfarin for thromboembolic disease prophylaxis is limited by a large inter - patient dose variability and high risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Polymorphisms in two genes , CYP2C9 and VK ORC1 , have consistently been shown to be associated with warfar in dose requirem...

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Main Author: Shaw, Kaitlyn
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44242