Title : Pharmacokinetics and response to pravastatin in paediatric patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia and in paediatric cardiac transplant recipients in relation to polymorphisms of the SLCO1B1 and ABCB1 genes.

Pub. Date : 2006 Jun

PMID : 16722833






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1 Pharmacokinetics and response to pravastatin in paediatric patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia and in paediatric cardiac transplant recipients in relation to polymorphisms of the SLCO1B1 and ABCB1 genes. Pravastatin ATP binding cassette subfamily B member 1 Homo sapiens
2 AIMS: Our aim was to investigate associations between the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the SLCO1B1 (encoding OATP1B1) and ABCB1 (encoding P-glycoprotein) genes with the pharmacokinetics and efficacy of pravastatin in children with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HeFH) and in paediatric cardiac transplant recipients. Pravastatin ATP binding cassette subfamily B member 1 Homo sapiens