“…Among the three studies without genetic information (populations 1, 13, and 14) (Wedlund et al, 1984;Sanz et al, 1989;Bertilsson et al, 1992), the mean of observed ratios ranged twofold (0.18-0.37), and CV values of the ratios were comparable (96-109%). Among the eight studies or 10 populations (populations 2-8 and 10-12) in which only CYP2C19 null alleles were genotyped (Chang et al, 1995;de Morais et al, 1995;Persson et al, 1996;Goldstein et al, 1997;Xiao et al, 1997;Sviri et al, 1999;Aklillu et al, 2002;He et al, 2002), the mean of observed ratios ranged 1.9-, 1.5-, 1.2-, and 1.3-fold for CYP2C19*1/*1 OR *1/*17 OR *17/*17 (0.13-0.23), *1/null OR *17/null (0.21-0.33), null/null (0.97-1.11), and non-PM (0.21-0.29), respectively. Although CV values of the observed ratios were lowered in comparison with those of the three studies without genetic information, they were still high and varied among studies within each genotype, ranging between 57-79, 36-68, 2-7, and 52-70%, respectively.…”