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09/16/10 9:11 PM

#4174 RE: JoePick #4173

More than 2 million Americans taking Plavix — 5% of the 48 million in total — are poor metabolizers, because they didn't inherit any fully functioning copies of CYP2C19, the gene involved in converting the drug into its active form. Most don't know it, because they haven't been tested.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-25-1Agenetictesting25_CV_N.htm