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Introduction of pharmacogenetic screening to HIV clinical practice: Potential benefits and challenges
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Introduction of pharmacogenetic screening to HIV clinical practice: Potential benefits and challenges

S. Mallal and E. Phillips
European Infectious Diseases, (2), pp.13-18
2007
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Abstract

It has long been recognised that individuals vary in their susceptibility to diseases and in their response to drugs, but it is only in the last 50 years that progress has been made in elucidating the genetic basis of this phenomenon. The term ‘pharmacogenetics’ was coined by Friedrich Vogel in 1959 to denote the effects of polymorphisms within a particular human gene on the disposition and action of drugs...

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