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Four variant alleles, <jats:italic>TPMT*2<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>TPMT*3A<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>TPMT*3B<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>TPMT*3C<\/jats:italic>, are responsible over the 80% of low or undetectable enzyme activity. The frequencies of these variants were investigated among 106 children with ALL in Turkish population. <jats:italic>TPMT*3A<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>TPMT*3C<\/jats:italic> were the only deficiency alleles detected in Turkish population with an allele frequency of 0.9% for both. While <jats:italic>*3C<\/jats:italic> allele frequency in Turkish population was found to be very similar to Asian and other Caucasian populations, *<jats:italic>3A<\/jats:italic> allele frequency was significantly (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.05) lower. So far, studies showed that the genetic polymorphisms of other drug metabolizing enzymes like <jats:italic>CYP2E1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>CYP1A1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>GSTM1\/ T1<\/jats:italic> in Turkish population were similar to Caucasian populations. However, we found that the distribution of TPMT polymorphisms in Turkish population was significantly lower than those in other Caucasians like British, French, and Italian whereas the distributions of <jats:italic>TPMT<\/jats:italic> variants were found to be very similar to Kazak population which is also Caucasian in ethnic origin. In this study, the clinical histories of the patients in the sample population were also examined, retrospectively. The patients with heterozygous or homozygous mutant genotypes had developed severe neutropenia and infection during 6MP therapy. 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