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. 2013 Mar 5;4:24. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00024

Table 1.

Summary data on selected genetic polymorphisms of CYP2B6.

CYP allele designationa Key mutation(s)b rs number Location, protein effect Allele frequenciesc Functional effect
CYP2B6*4 g.18053(c.516) A>G rs2279343 K262R (isolated) 0.00 AA, Af
0.04 Ca
0.05–0.12 As
↑ Expression, moderate substrate-dependent effects
CYP2B6*5 g.25505(c.1459) C>T rs3211371 R487C 0.01–0.04AA, Af
0.09–0.12 Ca
0.05–0.12 Hs
0.01–0.04 As
↓ Expression, in part compensated by ↑ specific activity
CYP2B6*6 g.15631(c.516) G>T rs3745274 and g.18053(c.785)A>G rs2279343 Q172H
K262R
0.33–0.5 AA, Af
0.10–0.21 As
0.14–0.27 Ca
0.62 PNG
↓ Expression; ↓activity with efavirenz in vivo; some other substrates show ↑ activity
CYP2B6*18 g.21011(c.983)T>C rs28399499 I328T 0.04–0.08 AA
0.05–0.12, Af
0.01 HS
0.00 As, Ca, PNG
↓ Expression and activity
CYP2B6*22 g.-82T>C
rs34223104
promoter (TATA-box) 0.00–0.025 AA, Af, As
0.024 Ca, Hs
↑ Expression and activity
↑ Inducibility in vitro
a

According to CYPallele nomenclature homepage http://www.cypalleles.ki.

b

Genomic (g.) and cDNA (c.) positions are given in bp.

c

Selected frequencies of individual ethnicities (AA, African American; Af African; As Asian; Ca Caucasian; Hs, Hispanic; PNG, Papua New Guineans) compiled from dbSNP http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP and from the literature cited in the text.