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Intermittent jaundice in patients with acute leukaemia: a common mutation of the bilirubin uridine-diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase gene among Asians.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Aug 1999
Kimura T, Akaba K, Ikegami T, Akiba K, Kanazawa C, Katsuura M, Shimizu Y, Imaizumi M, Lin C, Hayasaka K
Abstract excerpt
The Gly71Arg mutation of the hepatic bilirubin UDP glucuronosyl-transferase (B-UGT) gene associated with Gilbert syndrome prevails among Japanese and its gene frequency is 0.13. Among 20 patients with acute leukaemia, 4 patients showed intermittent unconjugated hyperbilirubinaemia during the course of combined chemotherapy. The Gly71Arg mutation was detected in all 4 patients with hyperbilirubinaemia, but was not...
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