The University of Iowa (UIHC)
Department of Pathology
LABORATORY SERVICES HANDBOOK

Quantitative STR (VAMC)

Order Form: Tissue Typing Laboratory Test Requisition 		  Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
Veterans Affairs Hospital 10E-19
(319-338-0581), EXT. 5640
dial 158 from UIHC 
Specimen
 
Whole Blood
Minimum:
 
THREE - FOUR 10 mL yellow top (ACD) tubes.
Delivery Instructions:
 
Deliver at room temperature.
Analytic Time:
 
7 days
Comments:
 
Requires pre-transplant donor sample and pre-transplant recipient 
sample and prior Qualitative STR testing.

Engraftment test provides percentage of donor DNA in post-transplant 
blood or bone marrow sample by quantitative analysis of 1 STR locus.
Methodology:
 
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Sequence Based Typing (SBT)
CPT Code:
 
83891(x3), 83909(x9), 83900(x1), 83901(x52), 83912(x2)
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Updated: 03/29/2007

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