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    • Pena, Pedro; Zagolin, Mónica; Acuña, Mónica; Navarrete, Sandra; Bustamante, Pilar; Canals Cifuentes, Andrea (2016)
      Background: Smoking cessation therapies include counseling, psychological management and pharmacological therapy. Varenicline is the most effective and safe medication available. Aim: To study risk factors for the failure ...
    • Peña, Pedro; Zagolin, Mónica; Acuña, Mónica; Navarrete, Sandra; Bustamante, Pilar; Canals Cifuentes, Andrea (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
      © 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All right reserved. Background: Smoking cessation therapies include counseling, psychological management and pharmacological therapy. Varenicline is the most effective and safe medication ...
    • Acuña, Mónica; Pinto, Eric; Olivares, Paulina; Ríos, Carolina (S. Karger AG, 2017)
      © 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel. Objectives: It is known that the interindividual and interethnic variability of the genetic polymorphisms of CYP2D6 plays an important role in the presentation of adverse drug reactions and ...
    • Rios, Carolina Alejandra; Villalón, Ricardo; Muñoz, Jorge; Acuña, Mónica; Cifuentes, Lucía (2014)
      CONTEXT: Muir-Torre syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis caused by mutations in the mismatch repair genes. It is characterized by the presence of sebaceous skin tumors and internal malignancies, affecting ...
    • Ioannidis, Alexander G.; Blanco Portillo, Javier; Sandoval, Karla; Hagelberg, Erika; Miquel-Poblete, Juan Francisco; Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Juan Esteban; Auckland, Kathryn; Parks, Tom; Robson, Kathryn; Hill, Adrian V. S.; Ávila Arcos, María C.; Sockell, Alexandra; Homburger, Julian R; Wojcik, Genevieve L.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Herrera, Luisa M.; Berríos, Soledad; Acuña, Mónica; Llop, Elena; Eng, Celeste; Huntsman, Scott; Burchard, Esteban G.; Gignoux, Christopher R.; Cifuentes, Lucía O.; Verdugo Salgado, Ricardo; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Mentzer, Alexander J.; Bustamante, Carlos D.; Moreno Estrada, Andrés (Nature, 2020)
      The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to the existence of New World crops, such as the sweet potato and ...
    • Cifuentes Ovalle, Lucía; Arancibia, Margarita; Torrente Avendaño, Mariela; Acuña, Mónica; Farfán Reyes, Corina; Ríos, Carolina (2013)
      Hearing loss is the most common inherited sensorial defi ciency in humans; about 1 in 1000 children suff er from severe or profound hearing loss at birth. Mutations in the GJB2 gene are the most common cause of prelingual, ...
    • Acuña, Mónica; Martínez, Marisol (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 1996)
      Background: Succinylcholine causes prolonged apneas in a proportion if subjects that have genetical defect of butyrylcholinesterase, due to the presence of unusual alleles in the locus BCHE. Aim: To estimate allele frequencies ...