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. 2002 Feb;53(2):111–122. doi: 10.1046/j.0306-5251.2001.01548.x

Table 1.

Frequency of CYP2D6*1 or*2 alleles (causing ‘normal’ enzyme activity) and some alleles causing no or deficient CYP2D6 activity in three different ethnic populations.

CYP2D6 alleles Functional mutation Consequence Swedish Allele frequency (%) Chinese Zimbabwean
*1 or *2 69 43 54
*3 A2637 del Frame shift 2 0 0
*4 G1934A Splicing defect 22 0–1 2
*5 Gene deletion No enzyme 4 6 4
*10 C188T Unstable enzyme n.d. 51 6
*17 C1111T Reduced affinity n.d. n.d. 34

n.d. = not determined.

Data are from original publications [23, 25, 27] and reviews [4, 5].