FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: what is involved is the immunogenetic analysis of venous blood of the patients with chronic myeloid leukemia treated with a first-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Gleevec. Polymerase chain reaction PCR-SSP is used to identify the genes of the class II HLA system, locus B. If observing any specificities HLA-DRB1*15(02) or HLA-DRB1*16(02), the favourable outcome of chronic myeloid leukemia with an optimal response developing over the control period (6, 12 18 months of therapy) is predicted. In observing the specificities DRB1*11(05) or DRB1* 14(06), the unfavourable outcome of chronic myeloid leukemia with a failure to achieve an optimal response is predicted.
EFFECT: higher accuracy of prediction of the outcome of chronic myeloid leukemia with underlying Gleevec therapy.
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Dates
2013-05-10—Published
2012-03-07—Filed