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10335448

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-7-1
pubmed:abstractText
Pharmacogenetics is the study of idiosyncratic drug responses that have an hereditary basis and usually reflect differences in drug-metabolizing enzymes (DMEs) and the receptors that control DME levels. The purpose of this review is to provide a brief overview of recent findings concerning more than a dozen clinically important polymorphisms and to emphasize the need to standardize the nomenclature of these alleles in each polymorphism, as quickly as possible. This nomenclature system should be consistent with the Human Gene Nomenclature Guidelines. Because DMEs have existed before divergence of prokaryotes and eukaryotes more than 2 billion years ago, it is clear that DME genes first must have evolved for critical life functions and that, more recently in animals, DME genes expanded to include the role of detoxification of dietary products, evolving plant metabolites, and, of course, pharmaceutical drugs. Many human DME polymorphisms are relevant to clinical problems in that they represent the basis of risk factors in the development of cancer, toxicity, and other diseases associated with drug, chemical, or dietary exposure. The study of the relationship among human genetic polymorphisms, cancer susceptibility, toxicity, and environmental exposure is a new and exciting area of research--which will undoubtedly have increasingly important implications for risk assessment and the prevention, early diagnosis, and intervention of clinical disease.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0360-2532
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
467-87
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic epidemiology of environmental toxicity and cancer susceptibility: human allelic polymorphisms in drug-metabolizing enzyme genes, their functional importance, and nomenclature issues.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio 45267-0056, USA. dan.nebert@uc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Review