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. 2017 Jul 26;17(3):341–361. doi: 10.1007/s40268-017-0195-7

Table 5.

Genotypic and allelic frequencies of MDR1 (ABCB1) C3435T in the Middle East and North Africa region

References Country Study population Sample size Genotypic frequencies (%) Allelic frequencies (%)
CC CT TT C T
[46] Egypt Healthy volunteers 50 24.0 48.0 28.0 48.0 52.0
Patients with drug-responsive epilepsy 37 13.5 46.0 40.5 36.5 63.5
Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy 63 55.6 38.1 6.3 74.6 25.4
[90] Egypt Patients taking clopidogrel for ACS or PCI who experienced MACE 84 39.3 47.6 13.1 63.1 36.9
Patients taking clopidogrel for ACS or PCI who did not experience MACE 106 37.7 44.3 17.9 59.9 40.1
[91] Egypt Patients taking maintenance warfarin 84 29.8 54.8 15.4 57.1 42.9
[92] Egypt Patients with hypercholesterolemia 50 38.0 40.0 22.0 58.0 42.0
[93] Egypt Patients taking imatinib for newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive CML 100 44.0 47.0 9.0 67.5 32.5
[94] Egypt Healthy child volunteers 35 28.6 48.6 22.9 47.1 52.9
Children with immune thrombocytopenia 48 8.3 62.5 27.1 67.6 32.4
[95] Iran Patients admitted for primary care 933 31.6 64.5 3.9 49.1 50.9
[96] Iran Healthy volunteers 200 23.5 45.0 31.5 46.0 54.0
Patients with drug-responsive epilepsy 200 16.0 40.0 44.0 36.0 64.0
Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy 132 25.7 41.7 32.6 46.6 53.4
[97] Iran Iranian Azeri Turkish volunteers 92 19.6 53.3 27.2 46.2 53.8
Iranian Azeri Turkish patients with Behçet’s disease 69 18.8 46.4 34.8 42.0 58.0
[98] Iran Healthy female volunteers 200 70.5 25.0 4.5 83.0 17.0
Female patients with breast cancer 100 75.0 16.0 9.0 83.0 17.0
[99] Iran Healthy female volunteers 54 18.5 55.6 25.9 47.0 53.0
Female patients with breast cancer 50 20.0 54.0 26.0 46.3 53.7
[100] Iran Healthy female volunteers 77 15.6 58.4 26.0 44.8 55.2
Female patients with breast cancer 106 15.1 53.7 31.1 42.0 58.0
[101] Jordan Healthy volunteers 100 17.0 50.0 33.0 42.0 58.0
[102] Jordan Patients of ear, nose, and throat clinic 251 16.3 48.2 35.4 40.4 59.6
[103] Jordan Patients receiving methotrexate for RA 159 37.7 45.3 17.0 60.4 39.6
[104] Jordan Healthy female volunteers 150 26.7 43.3 30.0 48.3 51.7
Female patients with breast cancer 150 45.3 41.3 13.3 66.0 34.0
[105] Lebanon Children with ALL 127 27.6 44.1 28.3 49.6 50.4
[106] Morocco Healthy volunteers 100 39.0 51.0 10.0 64.5 35.5
[107] Saudi Arabia Healthy volunteers 179 35.2 45.2 19.6 57.8 42.2
[108] Saudi Arabia Healthy female volunteers 100 93.0 5.0 2.0 95.5 4.5
Female patients with breast cancer 100 73.0 11.0 16.0 78.5 21.5
[45] Saudi Arabia Patients with PHT-responsive epilepsy 25 80.0 20.0 88.0 12.0
Patients with PHT-resistant epilepsy 25 52.0 48.0 70.0 30.0
[43] Turkey Healthy volunteers 96 29.2 46.9 24.0 52.6 47.4
[109] Turkey Healthy volunteers 107 27.1 41.1 31.8 47.7 52.3
[110] Turkey Healthy volunteers 174 28.2 46.0 25.9 51.1 48.9
Patients with CBZ-responsive epilepsy 53 30.2 54.7 15.1 57.5 42.5
Patients with CBZ-resistant epilepsy 44 29.5 59.1 11.4 59.1 40.9
[29] Turkey Children with drug-responsive epilepsy 83 26.5 45.8 27.7 49.4 50.6
Children with drug-resistant epilepsy 69 24.6 43.5 31.9 46.4 53.6
[111] Turkey Patients receiving fentanyl for spinal anesthesia 83 28.9 54.2 16.9 56.0 44.0
[112] Turkey Patients with normal CAG 85 27.1 41.2 31.8 47.6 52.4
Patients with CAD found on CAG 113 27.4 48.7 23.9 51.8 48.2
[113] Turkey Healthy male volunteers 102 26.5 49.0 24.5 51.0 49.0
Male individuals with primary infertility 192 27.6 57.3 15.1 56.3 43.7
[114] Turkey Healthy volunteers 130 25.4 44.6 30.0 47.7 52.3
Patients with familial Mediterranean fever 142 16.9 59.9 23.2 46.8 53.2
[115] Turkey Healthy volunteers 250 27.2 42.4 30.4 48.4 51.6
Patients with familial Mediterranean fever 309 20.4 55.3 24.3 48.1 51.9
[116] Turkey Patients with familial Mediterranean fever 41 3.7 54.2 43.4 29.2 70.8
[117] Turkey Renal transplant recipients taking tacrolimus 92 30.4 47.8 21.7 54.3 45.7
[118] Turkey Renal transplant recipients taking cyclosporine who did not develop gingival hyperplasia 114 27.2 44.7 28.1 49.6 50.4
Renal transplant recipients taking cyclosporine who developed gingival hyperplasia 40 32.5 37.5 30.0 51.3 48.7
[119] Turkey Patients taking clozapine who did not develop agranulocytosis 91 29.7 53.8 16.5 56.6 43.4
Patients taking clozapine who developed agranulocytosis 10 20.0 60.0 20.0 50.0 50.0
[120] Turkey Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer 79 24.1 62.0 13.9 55.1 44.9
[121] Turkey Healthy volunteers 150 NR 52.3 47.7
Patients with colorectal cancer 103 NR 61.2 38.8

ACS acute coronary syndrome, ALL acute lymphoblastic leukemia, AML acute myeloid leukemia, CAD coronary artery disease, CAG coronary angiography, CBZ carbamazepine, CML chronic myeloid leukemia, MACE major adverse cardiac event, NA not assessed, NR not reported, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, PHT phenytoin, RA rheumatoid arthritis