Gut microbial metabolism of 5-ASA diminishes its clinical efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease

RS Mehta, JR Mayers, Y Zhang, A Bhosle… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, variability in clinical efficacy of the widely used inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) drug 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) has been attributed, in part, to its acetylation and …

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

Z Hofmanová, S Kreutzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and
later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes …

Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

F Broushaki, MG Thomas, V Link, S López, L Van Dorp… - Science, 2016 - science.org
We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile
Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously …

Arylamine N-acetyltransferase acetylation polymorphisms: paradigm for pharmacogenomic-guided therapy-a focused review

DW Hein, LM Millner - Expert opinion on drug metabolism & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The N-acetylation polymorphism has been the subject of comprehensive
reviews describing the role of arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) in the metabolism of …

Human population dynamics and Yersinia pestis in ancient northeast Asia

GM Kılınç, N Kashuba, D Koptekin, N Bergfeldt… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
We present genome-wide data from 40 individuals dating to c. 16,900 to 550 years ago in
northeast Asia. We describe hitherto unknown gene flow and admixture events in the region …

Accuracy of Various Human NAT2 SNP Genotyping Panels to Infer Rapid, Intermediate and Slow Acetylator Phenotypes

DW Hein, MA Doll - Pharmacogenomics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: Humans exhibit genetic polymorphism in NAT2 resulting in rapid, intermediate and
slow acetylator phenotypes. Over 65 NAT2 variants possessing one or more SNPs in the …

N-acetyltransferase 2 polymorphism is associated with bladder cancer risk: An updated meta-analysis based on 54 case-control studies

Y Song, X Qi, X Liu - Gene, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) polymorphism could participate in the
metabolism of carcinogens through regulating the activity of a series of critical enzymes …

N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) genotype as a risk factor for development of drug-induced liver injury relating to antituberculosis drug treatment in a mixed-ethnicity …

CS Ng, A Hasnat, A Al Maruf, MU Ahmed… - European journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose This study aims to assess whether NAT2 genotype affects susceptibility to
moderate to severe liver injury in patients undergoing drug treatment for tuberculosis with …

Refinement of the prediction of N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) phenotypes with respect to enzyme activity and urinary bladder cancer risk

S Selinski, M Blaszkewicz, K Ickstadt, JG Hengstler… - Archives of …, 2013 - Springer
Polymorphisms of N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) are well known to modify urinary bladder
cancer risk as well as efficacy and toxicity of pharmaceuticals via reduction in the enzyme's …

The Differential Effect of NAT2 Variant Alleles Permits Refinement in Phenotype Inference and Identifies a Very Slow Acetylation Genotype

JD Ruiz, C Martínez, K Anderson, M Gross, NP Lang… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Indirect evidences suggest that acetylation phenotype categories are heterogeneous and
that subcategories, related to specific NAT2 variant alleles might exist. We analyzed the in …