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Common side effects (>1% incidence) may include abdominal pain, diarrhea, indigestion, and a general feeling of weakness. Rare side effects include joint pain, memory loss, and muscle cramps. A type of DNA variant known as a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) may help predict individuals prone to developing myopathy when taking simvastatin; a study ultimating including 32,000 patients concluded that carriers of one or two risk alleles of SNP rs4149056 were at 5x or 16x increased risk, respectively.

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