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BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 141, Issue 2, Pages 205-208Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0705623
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nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; adverse drug effects; acute gastrointestinal bleeding; cytochrome P4502C9; pharmacogenomics
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Impaired drug metabolism is a major cause of adverse drug reactions, and it is often caused by mutations at genes coding for drug-metabolising enzymes. Two amino-acid polymorphisms of cytochrome P4502C9 (CYP2C9), an enzyme involved in the metabolism of several nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), were studied in 94 individuals with acute bleeding after NSAIDs use and 124 individuals receiving NSAIDs with no adverse effects. The frequency of CYP2C9 variant alleles was increased in overall bleeding patients, with a significant trend to higher risk with increasing number of variant alleles (P = 0.02). The odds ratio for bleeding patients receiving CYP2C9 substrates (n = 33) was 2.5 for heterozygous and 3.7 for homozygous carriers of mutations (P < 0.015), suggesting that the inherited impairment of CYP2C9 activity increases the risk for severe adverse drug reactions after NSAIDs use.
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