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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2008 Feb 27;84(3):326–331. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2008.10

Table 3.

Warfarin-dosing equation in derivation cohort (N = 1,015)

Entry into model Variable Effect on warfarin dose R2 after entry P value
1 VKOR 3673G>A −28% (−30 to −25%) 25% <0.0001
2 BSA, per 0.25 m2 11% (9−14%) 34% <0.0001
3 CYP2C9*3 −33% (−37 to −29%) 40% <0.0001
4 Age, per decade −7% (−9 to −6%) 45% <0.0001
5 CYP2C9*2 −19% (−22 to −15%) 50% <0.0001
6 Target INR, per 0.5 increase 11% (7−14%) 51% <0.0001
7 Amiodarone −22% (−30% to −14%) 52% <0.0001
8 Current smoker 10% (3−16%) 52.4% 0.002
9 African-American race −9% (−14 to −3%) 52.8% 0.002
10 Venous thromboembolism 7% (1−13%) 53.1% 0.013

BSA, body surface area in meters2; DVT, deep venous thrombosis; INR, international normalized ratio; PE, pulmonary embolism; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism. The optimal pharmacogenetics algorithm that estimated the daily warfarin dose (mg/day) was: