title: Erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase isoenzyme phenotypes in leprosy.
abstract: Hemolysates from 50 cases of leprosy and five controls were studied for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) isoenzyme phenotypes by polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis using a miniaturized system. The cases were classified as lepromatous (24), borderline lepromatous (5), borderline tuberculoid (5), and tuberculoid (16) according to the Ridley-Jopling scale. All had been on treatment with dapsone for between two and 12 years. None of the cases showed deficiency of erythrocyte G-6-PD. All the cases and the controls showed the G-6-PD phenotype to be of the B+ variety. Therefore this genetic marker does not appear to be related to susceptibility to leprosy or to the clinical variety of the disease in our situation.
mesh_terms: D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics*; D005955:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000235:genetics*; D007918:Leprosy / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase