It Is Not Always Alcohol Abuse—A Transferrin Variant Impairing the CDT Test
Alcohol And AlcoholismAndrea Zühlsdorf +92015Journals
Elevated Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) levels are used as a biomarker in order to screen for chronic alcohol abuse. Transferrin (Tf) variants can impair methods to measure elevated CDT levels such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). We present a Tf variant affecting the second glycosylation site of Tf and the complications it causes in diagnosing alcoholism.
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