The effect of genetic and nongenetic factors on warfarin dose variability in Qatari population
Bader et al.
The finding, in our words
Using a patient-centric saliva microsampling kit, the study found that genetic variants, VKORC1 and CYP2C9, and smoking explained 39.2% of warfarin dose variability in a Qatari population, supporting decentralised sampling for pharmacogenomic profiling.
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