Article
MTHFR variants 677TT and 677CT/1298AC are associated with decreased tolerance to methotrexate in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia
2022-11-03
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<h4>Background: </h4> Methotrexate (MTX) remains a critical component in the treatment of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), exerting its antileukemic effect through interference of the folate metabolic pathway. MTHFR is an enzyme that serves as the rate limiting step within this pathway and there has been speculation that certain MTHFR single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) alter physiologic responses...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0fd68974-eaf2-5326-82a6-9e0a54ee9f0f
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.166745891.13248632/v1
