| Literature DB >> 19604079 |
Alvin Gomez1, Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg.
Abstract
Although pharmacogenetics has been instrumental in describing interindividual variations in drug metabolism, epigenetic factors offer another blanket of information that could give a more vivid picture and help in developing a more personalized therapy. The dynamic aspect of epigenetics could likewise provide more definite answers to the role of changing environmental factors in drug response: the bridge that connects the environment to the genome. In this review we discuss known epigenetic and microRNA-dependent regulation of the human drug-metabolizing cytochromes P450 to help explain the unknown factors of variable drug response.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19604079 DOI: 10.2217/pgs.09.56
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pharmacogenomics ISSN: 1462-2416 Impact factor: 2.533