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. 2023 May 9;14:1001559. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1001559

TABLE 1.

Reported characteristics of patients with homozygous variant NUDT15 c.415C>T genotypes taking azathioprine (AZA).

No. Source Age/Gender Disease TPMT genotype NUDT15 c.415C>T genotype AZA dose Interval a and neutrophil counts (× 109 cells/L) The lowest NEU b counts (× 109 cells/L) Recovery period (NEU count above 0.5×109 cells/L or 0.1×109 cells/L) after discontinuation c (other details)
Ethnicity
Weight
1 This report 18 Female SLE d *2, c.238G>C(GG); *3B, c.460G>A(GG); *3C, c.719A>G(AA) TT 2.32 mg/kg/d 27 d 0.43 0.00 12 d, 7 d (Neutrophil count 2.42 × 109 cells/L at day 18 after discontinuation)
Chinese
43 kg
2 Séverine et al. (2022) 26 Female CD e *2, c.238G>C(GG) TT 2.5 mg/kg/d 35–42 d 0.66 ∼0.3 ? (Neutrophil count 1.5 × 109 cells/L at day 4 after discontinuation (
European *3B, c.460G>A(GG)
? *3C, c.719A>G(AA)
3 Bae et al. (2020) 12 Female CD TPMT *1/*1 TT 0.5 mg/kg/d ∼20 d 3.37 (due to significant hair loss) ? ?
Korean
34 kg
4 Yan et al. (2018) 47 Male PV f TPMT *1/*1 CT 150 mg/d 65 d ? ? ?
Chinese
?
5 Shih et al. (2019) 28 Female PV TPMT *1/*1 TT 100 mg/d 28 d 0.36 0.36 ?
Chinese
?
40 Female PV TPMT *1/*1 TT 100 mg/d 28 d 0.3 0.3 ?
Chinese
?
6 Nomura et al. (2018) 61 Female PV ? TT 100 mg/d 14 d ? 0.435 8 d
Japanese
?
57 Female PV ? TT 100 mg/d 17 d ? 0.21 10 d
Japanese
?
37 Female RA g ? TT 50 mg/d twice a week 46 d ? 1.34 5 d
Japanese
?
7 Hon et al. (2018) 17 Female Eczema TPMT *1/*1 TT 50 mg/d 28 d 0.8 0.1 ? (Neutrophil count 1.8 × 109 cells/L at day 7 after discontinuation)
Chinese
70 kg
8 Devasia et al. (2020) 26 Female AIHA h *2, c.238G>C(GG) TT 1.5 mg/kg/d 7 d 0.19 ? ? (Presented with hair loss, oral ulcers, and leukopenia)
Indian *3B, c.460G>A(GG)
? *3C, c.719A>G(AA)
28 Female Chronic ITP i *2, c.238G>C(GG) TT 1.5 mg/kg/d 14 d 0.21 ? ? (Presented with hair loss and leukopenia)
Indian *3B, c.460G>A(GG)
? *3C, c.719A>G(AA)
34 Female Chronic ITP *2, c.238G>C(GG) TT 2 mg/kg/d 14 d 0.19 ? ? (Presented with fever and cytopenia)
Indian *3B, c.460G>A(GG)
? *3C, c.719A>G(AA)
18 Female Chronic ITP *2, c.238G>C(GG) CT 1.5 mg/kg/d 21 d 1.68 ? ? (Presented with hair loss, blood counts were normal, reduced doses of 1 mg/kg/d were tolerated)
Indian *3B, c.460G>A(GG)
? *3C, c.719A>G(AA)
12 Female Chronic ITP *2, c.238G>C(GG) CT 2 mg/kg/d 28 d 0.8 ? ? (Presented with hair loss and leukopenia, lost to follow-up)
Indian *3B, c.460G>A(GG)
? *3C, c.719A>G(AA)
9 Fei et al. (2018) 22 Female SS j *3C, c.719A>G(AA) TT 0.91 mg/kg/d 21 d 0.5 0.1 5 d, 3 d (Neutrophil count of 2.0 × 109/L at day 10 after discontinuation)
Chinese
55 kg
10 Ben Salem et al. (2020) 42 Male IBD k ? TT 2.27 mg/kg/d 21 d 0.64 (White blood cell count) ? (White blood cell count of 5.5 × 109/L at day 10 after discontinuation)
Tunisian
?
a

Interval: from taking AZA to discovery of myelosuppression.

b

NEU: Neutrophils.

c

NEU count above 0.5×109/L or 0.1×109/L.

d

SLE: Systematic lupus erythematosus.

e

CD: Crohn’s disease.

f

PV: Pemphigus vulgaris.

g

RA: Rheumatoid arthritis.

h

AIHA: autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

i

ITP: Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

j

SS: Sjögren syndrome.

k

IBD: inflammatory bowel disease; ?: not mentioned. Case reports of patients who took other medicine interacting with AZA, such as allopurinol (Takeuchi et al., 2021) or patients with abnormal liver function (Ailing et al., 2016) are not listed in this table. Other vaiants of NUDT15, such as NUDT15 416G>A (Tomiyoshi et al., 2020), are also not listed.