Quantitative STR (VAMC)

Iowa Regional Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center 10E-19
319-338-0581, EXT. 5640 (dial 158 from UIHC)

Specimen(s):

Whole Blood

Minimum:

THREE - FOUR 10 mL yellow top (ACD) tubes.

Delivery Instructions:

Deliver at room temperature.

Testing Schedule:

Test performed daily.

Turn Around Time:

Resulted in Epic by 5-7 working 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.

All HLA Testing is ordered through the University of Iowa Epic 
System.

Methodology:

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

CPT Code:

81265, 81266, 81267

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