Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T02:46:35.498Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Pharmacogenetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

David A. Price-Evans
David A. Price-Evans*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Medicine University of Liverpool (Great Britain)

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The term Pharmacogenetics is defined as the study of genetically determined variations in animal species which are revealed by the effects of drugs.

I am going to deal with examples of these variations which have been found in Man. I must apologise for a certain amount of repetition of some facts which have already been aired in this conference, but it is my intention to give you a bird's eye view of the subject.

Type
Sessione di Conferenze/Lecture Session (11 Settembre)
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1962 , pp. 338 - 350
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1962

References

Key References

Nishimura, E. T. et al., 1959. Science 130. 333.Google Scholar
Beutler, E., 1960. In Stanbury, J. B., Wyngaarden, J. B. & Fredrickson, D. S., ed. The Metabolic basis of inherited disease, p. 1031. McGraw-Hill, New York.Google Scholar
Childs, B. & Zinkham, W., 1958. Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 102, 21.Google Scholar
Kalow, W., 1959. Cholinesterase Types in Ciba Foundation Symposium on Biochemistry of Human Genetics, pp. 39–56.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kalow, W. and Staron, H. A., 1957. Canad. J. Biochem., 35, 1305.Google Scholar
Harris, H. & Whittaker, M., 1961. Nature, 191, 496.Google Scholar
Biehl, J. P., 1957. Trans. Conf. Chemother. Tuberc. (St. Louis), 16, 108.Google Scholar
Evans, D. A. P. et al., 1960. Brit. Med. J., 2, 485.Google Scholar
Sunahara, S., 1961. Studies on metabolism of isoniazid. (Quarterly Progress Report II to U. S. Army Research & Development Group (9852) Far East).Google Scholar
Devadatta, S. et al., 1960. Bull. World Health Org., 23, 587.Google Scholar
Evans, D. A. P. & Clarke, C. A., 1961. Brit. Med. Bull., 17, 234.Google Scholar
Lehmann, H. et al., 1961. Brit. Med. Bull., 17, 230.Google Scholar