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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2013, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (3): 351-355.

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Apparent pharmacogenetics in antihypertensive therapy

KUANG Ze-min, HUANG Zhi-jun, YANG Guo-ping, YUAN Hong   

  1. 1Cardiovascular Department, the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
    2Center of Clinical Pharmacology, the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
    3Drug clinical Evaluation Research center, Central South University, Changsha 410013,Hunan,China
  • Received:2012-09-18 Revised:2012-12-31 Online:2013-03-26 Published:2013-04-02

Abstract: With the development of pharmacogenetics,people gradually realize that gene polymorphism cannot fully explain the antihypertensive drugs curative effect of individual differences. At the molecular level,many antihypertensive drugs related metabolic enzyme,receptors,transporter are subject to the influence of the regulation of gene expression,and play an important role in differences of antihypertensive treatment. Therefore, from the perspective of epigenetics genetic factors and the relationship between the antihypertensive drugs,will help to better explain the clinical drug reaction from the individual differences. This review summarizes the DNA methylation,histone modification and microRNAs,apparent genetic control way for antihypertensive related drugs coding genetic effects.

Key words: Epigenetics, Pharmacogenetics, DNA methylation, Histone Modification, MicroRNAs, Hypertension

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