GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE-DEFICIENCY AND INCIDENCE OF HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY

  • 1 March 1988
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 42 (3), 516-520
Abstract
We have evaluated the hypothesis of a negative association between glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and cancer in a cohort of 481 Sardinian males with hematological malignancies. The frequency of G6PD deficiency in the patients was not different from the incidence in a group of 16,219 controls. The same conclusion resulted from the comparison of the frequency of expression of the GdB gene in 23 heterozygous women having a clonal hematologic disease and a control group of 37 healthy heterozygotes. Therefore at present there is no evidence that G6PD deficiency had a protective effect against development of hematologic neoplasms.