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SUBMITTER: Correll M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4149181 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Correll Mick M Johnson Christopher K CK Ferrari Giovanni G Brizzio Mariano M Mak Andrew W C AW Quackenbush John J Shaw Richard E RE Zapolanski Alex A Grau Juan B JB
Genomics 20130224 6
Clopidogrel is an oral antiplatelet pro-drug prescribed to 40 million patients worldwide who are at risk for thrombotic events or receiving percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However about a fifth of patients treated with clopidogrel do not respond adequately to the drug. From a cohort of 105 patients on whom we had functional data on clopidogrel response, we used ultra-high throughput sequencing to assay mutations in CYP2C19 and ABCB1, the two genes genetically linked to respond. Testing ...[more]