Specimen:

Whole Blood

Minimum:

THREE 10 mL yellow top (ACD) tubes from patient pre-transplant AND 
donor pre-transplant.

Delivery Instructions:

Deliver at room temperature.

Analytic Time:

7 days

Comments:

Requires samples from BOTH patient and donor pre-transplant.

Baseline STR allele identification of donor and recipient.

Methodology:

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Sequence Based Typing (SBT)

CPT Code:

83891(x2), 83909(x4), 83900(x1), 83901(x34), 83912(x2)
Use modifiers (4J and 4K)

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