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Blood, 23 April 2009, Vol. 113, No. 17, pp. 3925-3930.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on December 12, 2008; DOI 10.1182/blood-2008-09-176859.


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Submitted September 2, 2008
Accepted November 29, 2008

Relative contribution of CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genotypes and early INR response to the prediction of warfarin sensitivity during initiation of therapy

Chun Li, Ute I. Schwarz, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Dan M. Roden, C. Michael Stein, and Daniel Kurnik*

Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States
Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States
Center for Human Genetics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States
Department of Medicine A and Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

* Corresponding author; email: daniel.kurnik{at}sheba.health.gov.il.

Genetic variants in CYP2C9 and VKORC1 strongly affect steady-state warfarin dose. However, these variants also affect early INR values during warfarin initiation. We examined whether CYP2C9/VKORC1 genotypes provide information about warfarin sensitivity additional to that provided by early INR responses. In 214 patients starting warfarin with INR-guided dose adjustments, we determined whether CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genotypes were associated with early measures of warfarin sensitivity (time to INR≥lower limit of therapeutic range; time to INR>4; and first stable warfarin dose) after adjusting for early (day 4-6) and week 1 (day 7-9) INR values. Early INRs were associated with all outcomes (all P<0.001) and were more informative than genotypes. For time-to-INR≥lower-limit-of-therapeutic-range, adding either early INRs or genotypes to a baseline model (clinical variables only) increased the goodness-of-fit (R2) from 0.05 to 0.42 and 0.19, respectively (full model, R2=0.46). For first-stable-warfarin-dose, adding either early INRs or genotypes to the baseline model increased the R2 from 0.08 to 0.32 and 0.27, respectively (full model, R2=0.40). After inclusion of week 1 INRs, CYP2C9 (P=0.08) and VKORC1 (P=0.30) were not associated with stable warfarin dose. Thus, much of the information provided by CYP2C9 and VKORC1 genotypes during warfarin initiation is captured by the early INR response.


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