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Whole-blood thiopurine S-methyltransferase activity with genotype concordance: a new, simplified phenotyping assay.
Annals of clinical biochemistry - 1 Sept 2006
Ford Loretta, Graham Valerie, Berg Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We have developed a new thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) phenotyping method that measures TPMT activity in whole blood. To evaluate this assay, we compared it with conventional TPMT phenotyping, which uses a red blood cell (RBC) lysate and genotyping for analysis of common TPMT mutations. METHODS: Whole-blood and RBC lysates were prepared from 402 patients' samples received for routine analysis....
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