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World J Gastroenterol. Dec 7, 2007; 13(45): 6003-6008
Published online Dec 7, 2007. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i45.6003
Published online Dec 7, 2007. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i45.6003
NAT2*6A, a haplotype of the N-acetyltransferase 2 gene, is an important biomarker for risk of anti-tuberculosis drug-induced hepatotoxicity in Japanese patients with tuberculosis
Norihide Higuchi, Naoko Tahara, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
Katsunori Yanagihara, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Hajime Isomoto, Saburou Shikuwa, Katsuhisa Omagari, Yohei Mizuta, Shigeru Kohno, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Sakamoto 1-7-1, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
Kiyoyasu Fukushima, Division of Internal Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Isahaya Hospital, Isahaya 859-0497, Japan
Naofumi Suyama, Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki Municipal Medical Center, Nagasaki 852-8012, Japan
Yuichi Inoue, Department of Internal Medicine, Isahaya Health Insurance General Hospital, Isahaya 854-8501, Japan
Koh-ichiro Yoshiura, Norio Niikawa, Department of Human Genetics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Sakamoto 1-12-4, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan
Koh-ichiro Yoshiura, Norio Niikawa, Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, SORST, JST, Kawaguchi, Japan
Chun-Yang Wen, Department of Digestive Disease Center, Beihua University, Jilin 132013, Jilin Province, China
Author contributions: All authors contributed equally to the work.
Supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Category B, No. 18390168) for K Tsukamoto by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
Correspondence to: Professor Kazuhiro Tsukamoto, Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan. ktsuka@nagasaki-u.ac.jp
Telephone: +81-95-8192447 Fax: +81-95-8192895
Received: December 18, 2006
Revised: September 3, 2007
Accepted: October 25, 2007
Published online: December 7, 2007
Revised: September 3, 2007
Accepted: October 25, 2007
Published online: December 7, 2007
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