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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacotherapy. 2008 Sep;28(9):1084–1097. doi: 10.1592/phco.28.9.1084

Table 3.

Selected studies evaluating the influence of CYP2C9 and/ or VKORC1 on attainment and maintenance of target INR among patients on coumarin therapy.

Study Design Polymorphisms
assessed
Time to Target INR Time to Stable INR/ dose Time in target range
¤Retrospective cohort (n=561)39 CYP2C9 *2, *3 NE NE No difference
¤Retrospective Cohort (n=186)40 CYP2C9 *2, *3 No difference Longer in patients with
variant CYP2C9 genotype
NE
ψProspective cohort (n=284)74 CYP2C9 *2, *3 NE Longer in patients with
CYP2C9 *2
NE
ФProspective cohort (n=231)75 CYP2C9 *2, *3
CYP2C9 *3 allele
NE Longer in patients with NE
¤Nested Case Control (n=219)73 CYP2C9 *2, *3 NE No difference No difference
ФProspective cohort (n=231)56 CYP2C9 *2, *3
VKORC1-1173
NE Longer in patients with
CYP2C9 *3 allele
NE
ψProspective cohort (n=281)57 CYP2C9 *2, *3
VKORC1-1173
NE Longer in patients with
CYP2C9 *2
NE
¤Prospective cohort (n=317, 162 AA)32 CYP2C9 *2, *3
VKORC1-1173
NE No difference NE
¤Prospective cohort
(n=297, 29 AA)51
CYP2C9 *2, *3
VKORC1-1639,
1173, 1542,
2255
Shorter in patients with
VKORC1 variant
NE NE
VKORC1 variants spent
more time above range
during initiation
¤Prospective cohort
(302 EA, 273 AA)24
CYP2C9 *2, *3,
*5, *6, *11
VKORC1-1173
No difference in EA or
AA patients for
CYP2C9 or VKORC1
No difference in EA or AA
patients for CYP2C9 or
VKORC1
NE

All comparisons are presented for variant versus wild-type genotypes at a non-directional statistical significance of 0.05.

NE: Not evaluated or not reported, AA: African American; EA: European Americans

Study participations were on different coumarins:

¤

Warfarin24,32,39,40,51,73,

ψ

Phenprocoumon57,74,

Ф

Acenocoumarol 56,75