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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Relling MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3098761 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 20110126 3
Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) activity exhibits monogenic co-dominant inheritance, with ethnic differences in the frequency of occurrence of variant alleles. With conventional thiopurine doses, homozygous TPMT-deficient patients (~1 in 178 to 1 in 3,736 individuals with two nonfunctional TPMT alleles) experience severe myelosuppression, 30-60% of individuals who are heterozygotes (~3-14% of the population) show moderate toxicity, and homozygous wild-type individuals (~86-97% of the populat ...[more]