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Fast and slow methylators: do racial differences influence risk of allograft rejection?
The Quarterly journal of medicine - 1 Jun 1993
Chocair P R, Duley J A, Sabbaga E, Arap S, Simmonds H A, Cameron J S
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A catabolic route for azathioprine involving methylation by thiopurine methyltransferase has been directly implicated in the drug's immunosuppressive efficacy. Since ethnic differences in thiopurine methyltransferase activity have been reported in a study of Lapps, this study compared the distribution of thiopurine methyltransferase activity in erythrocyte lysates from 134 healthy, randomly selected subjects...
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