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SUBMITTER: Biesiada J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4287371 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biesiada Jacek J Chidambaran Vidya V Wagner Michael M Zhang Xue X Martin Lisa J LJ Meller Jaroslaw J Sadhasivam Senthilkumar S
Pharmacogenomics 20141101 14
Background: Respiratory depression is a clinically and economically important but preventable complication of opioids. Genetic factors can help identify patients with high risk for respiratory depression. Methods: In this prospective genotype blinded clinical study, we evaluated the effect of a panel of variants in candidate genes on opioid-related respiratory depression in 347 children following tonsillectomy. Results: Using unsupervised hierarchical clustering and a combination of candidate ge ...[more]