Cardiovascular

Rapid Genotype Assay for Individualized Warfarin Dosing

March 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment
Jeffrey Anderson
Jeffrey Anderson

Douglas Zipes
Douglas Zipes

JEFFREY ANDERSON, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
COMMENT: DOUGLAS ZIPES, University of Indiana, Indianapolis

REFERENCE: Abstract 1020-89, American College of Cardiology New Orleans
The hope of refining treatments for cardiovascular disease by genotyping patients to detect individual sensitivities to particular medical therapies was brought a step closer at the ACC meeting in New Orleans by results from a study using a rapid genothype test. Jeffrey Anderson told Peter Goodwin about the assay they’ve been investigating which indicates required dosing of warfarin.

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