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Belantamab mafodotin detection by MASS-FIX and immunofixation

  • Patrick W. Mellors ORCID logo , Mindy C. Kohlhagen , Surendra Dasari , Maria A. V. Willrich , Morie A. Gertz , Shaji K. Kumar , Martha Q. Lacy , David L. Murray and Angela Dispenzieri ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Dr. Angela Dispenzieri, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA; and Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA, E-mail:

Funding source: NIH

Award Identifier / Grant number: HL-18-023

  1. Research funding: This study was supported by the NIH/NHLBI Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (StARR) R38 Program.

  2. Author contributions: P.W.M., M.C.K., S.D., D.L.M., and A.D. designed the study. M.C.K. performed the experiments. S.D., M.A.V.W., D.L.M., and A.D. interpreted MASS-FIX and IFE results. P.W.M. wrote the manuscript. M.A.G., S.K.K., and M.L.Q. reviewed the manuscript. All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: We declare one competing interest on behalf of authors Drs. David Murray and Surendra Dasari, who have patent rights on MASS-FIX technology and potential royalties from its use.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: This study was approved by the Mayo Clinic Institutional Review Board.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2021-0326).


Received: 2021-03-17
Accepted: 2021-05-28
Published Online: 2021-06-11
Published in Print: 2021-10-26

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