Frequency of the most prevalent Thiopurine S-Methyl Trasferase alleles in referrals to Shariati Hospital in Tehran

Background: Patients with low or intermediate TPMT enzyme activity are at increased risk to develop severe hematopoietic toxicity after taking standard doses of thiopuring medications. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of four allelic variants of the TPMT gene in an Iranian popula...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Azadi, Saeed Kaviani, Masood Soleimani, Mehrdad Norouzi nia, Abbas Haji fathali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bushehr University of Medical Sciences 2009-09-01
Series:Iranian South Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3-149&slc_lang=en&sid=1