Genetic determinants of the thiopurine methyltransferase intermediate activity phenotype in British Asians and Caucasians

Pharmacogenetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-105

  Marinaki, Anthony M ^a,d   Arenas, Monica ^a   Khan, Zubair H ^b   Lewis, Cathryn M ^c   Shobowale Bakre, El Monsor ^a   Escuredo, Emilia ^a   Fairbanks, Lynette D ^a   Mayberry, John F ^b   Wicks, Antony C ^b   Ansari, Azhar ^a   Sanderson, Jeremy ^a   Duley, John A ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 mercaptopurine; Azathioprine; Genotype; Phenotype; Thiopurine; Thiopurine methyltransferase; TPMT; Variable number terminal repeat; VNTR

Indexed keywords

THIOPURINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0037328448     PISSN: 0960314X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008571-200302000-00006     Document Type: Article

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