Länk - En del människor har en gen som fungerar som betablockerare, så de behöver inte ta sådan medicin vid hjärtproblem
"That was quite a bit of a twist I would say, as compared to what we've seen before in some other pharmacogenetic studies," Liggett says. "We found that in mostly African Americans, there is another form of this gene we are looking at which actually mimics the drug that is often used to treat heart failure, so those individuals do not need the drug at all."
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