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ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2023

Population-Specific Distribution of

Jennifer Gallardo-Cóndor, Pablo Naranjo, Sebastián Atarihuana, Dayana Coello, Patricia Guevara-Ramírez, Rodrigo Flores-Espinoza, Germán Burgos, Andrés López-Cortés, Alejandro Cabrera-Andrade

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Article in Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Jennifer Gallardo-CóndorFacultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0001-7867-5372
Pablo NaranjoFacultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Sebastián AtarihuanaFacultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Dayana CoelloLaboratorios de Investigación, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
Patricia Guevara-RamírezCentro de Investigación Genética y Genómica, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Eugenio Espejo, Universidad UTE, Quito, Ecuador.
Rodrigo Flores-EspinozaLaboratório de Diagnóstico por DNA (LDD), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Germán BurgosOne Health Research Group, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-8400-2753
Andrés López-CortésCancer Research Group (CRG), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0003-1503-1929
Alejandro Cabrera-AndradeEscuela de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0001-9702-6618
Universidad de Las Américas · ECUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela · ESUniversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro · BRUniversidad UTE · EC

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) is an enzyme that metabolizes purine analogs, agents used in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Improper drug metabolism leads to toxicity in chemotherapy patients and reduces treatment effectiveness. Methods: We sequenced the entire Results: We identified 8 single nucleotide variants in the coding region of Conclusion: The distribution of TPMT-deficient variants offers valuable insights into the populations under study, underscoring the necessity for genetic screening strategies to prevent thiopurine toxicity events among Latin American minority groups.

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ancestry estimationEcuadorian ethnic groupspharmacogeneticsthiopurine S-methyltransferasethiopurine toxicityTPMT deficiency

Identifiers

PMID38050617
PMCPMC10693761
OpenAlexW4389147301

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