Genetic-screening trial could reduce drug side-effects

Friday, June 24, 2011 - 05:00 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- Patients with a range of common inflammatory diseases that also have genetic variations leading to low levels of a particular enzyme in their bodies are at greater risk of suffering side-effects from the widely-used drug azathioprine.

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