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Thiopurine S-methyltransferase testing for averting drug toxicity: a meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy

Abstract

Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) deficiency increases the risk of serious adverse events in persons receiving thiopurines. The objective was to synthesize reported sensitivity and specificity of TPMT phenotyping and genotyping using a latent class hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic meta-analysis. In 27 studies, pooled sensitivity and specificity of phenotyping for deficient individuals was 75.9% (95% credible interval …

Authors

Zur RM; Roy LM; Ito S; Beyene J; Carew C; Ungar WJ

Journal

The Pharmacogenomics Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 305–311

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

August 2016

DOI

10.1038/tpj.2016.37

ISSN

1470-269X