Acetylator phenotypes in Papua New Guinea
Open Access
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Genetics
- Vol. 20 (1) , 37-40
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.20.1.37
Abstract
Acetylator phenotypes have been determined in 139 unrelated subjects from the hitherto untested populations of Papua New Guinea, and their relevance to current antituberculous isoniazid chemotherapy is discussed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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