Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on September 9, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(18):1331; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn269
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Re: Pharmacogenomic Variation of CYP2D6 and the Choice of Optimal Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: A Modeling Analysis
Affiliations of authors: Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv Israel (DG); Department of Medical Genetics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom (WN)
Correspondence to: Dr David Gurwitz, PhD, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel (e-mail: gurwitz@post.tau.ac.il).
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The modeling analysis of the Breast International Group 1–98 (BIG1-98) trial presented by Puglia et al. (1) provides an important impetus to further studies of tamoxifen pharmacogenetics. However, it is important to note that their analysis focused solely on the CYP2D6*4 allele. Although CYP2D6*4 is the allele most frequently associated with poor tamoxifen
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