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Genotyping of thiopurine methyltransferase in patients with acute leukemia using LightCycler PCR.
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Aug 2006
Davison Julie E A, McMullin Mary Frances, Catherwood Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are treated with thiopurines. Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) catalyses the S-methylation of thiopurines and is subject to genetic polymorphism. The TPMT genotype was determined in 55 patients with ALL. Three patients were heterozygous for allelic variants of TPMT. We describe an assay for the genotyping of the TPMT polymorphism using real-time fluorescence...
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