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)
Use modifier (4I or 4L)
Use 4I qualifier if order on BMT patient
Use 4L qualifier if order on solid organ patient

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