Patients in remission (n = 104) | Patients who developed active disease (n = 27) | Mann-Whitney comparison for remission v active disease (p value) | |
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Thioguanine nucleotide (TGN) metabolite concentrations were significantly lower in those patients who developed active disease. | |||
Units of TGN and MeMPN concentrations are pmol/8×108 red blood cells. | |||
Range of individual mean TGN concns | 70–717 (median 236) | 70–517 (median 175) | 0.04 |
Range of individual mean MeMPN concns | 30–12517 (median 1066) | 123–14267 (median 837) | 0.7 |
Dose (mg/kg) | 0.4–2.8 (median 1.9) | 0.6–2.5 (median 1.7) | 0.1 |