Pharmaconetics and genomics: Influence of the variable number of tandem repeats located in the promoter region of the thiopurine methyltransferase gene on enzymatic activity

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-174

  Alves, Sandra ^a   Amorim, António ^a   Ferreira, Fátima ^a   Prata, Maria João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; THIOPURINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODULATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TANDEM REPEAT; ALLELE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUCASIAN; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PORTUGAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PORTUGAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034889535     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mcp.2001.117284     Document Type: Article

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