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If you would like to reproduce a PharmGKB pathway diagram, please acknowledge the copyright to PharmGKB and state that permission has been given by PharmGKB and Stanford University. In addition, please check the pathway diagram page to find out whether the pathway has been published in the Pharmacogenetics and Genomics journal. If there is such a citation on the pathway page, please use that. If not, please use the PharmGKB citation below.

Also, please send a brief email to feedback@pharmgkb.org to inform us of which pathway diagram you are using and for what purpose.

In citing the PharmGKB please refer to:

E.M. McDonagh, M. Whirl-Carrillo, Y. Garten, R.B. Altman and T.E. Klein, "From pharmacogenomic knowledge acquisition to clinical applications: the PharmGKB as a clinical pharmacogenomic biomarker resource." Biomarkers in Medicine (2011) Dec; 5(6):795-806.
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The previous citation for the PharmGKB:

T.E. Klein, J.T. Chang, M.K. Cho, K.L. Easton, R. Fergerson, M. Hewett, Z. Lin, Y. Liu, S. Liu, D.E. Oliver, D.L. Rubin, F. Shafa, J.M. Stuart and R.B. Altman, "Integrating Genotype and Phenotype Information: An Overview of the PharmGKB Project" (220k PDF), The Pharmacogenomics Journal (2001) 1, 167-170.