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Haemophilia B Brandenberg-type promoter mutation.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Jan 1999
Heit J A, Ketterling R P, Zapata R E, Ordonez S M, Kasper C K, Sommer S S
Abstract excerpt
We report the second confirmed case of the haemophilia B 'Brandenberg' phenotype. At the time of testing, patient HB530 was a 17-year-old post-puberty male with a persistent, clinically severe bleeding disorder and markedly reduced plasma procoagulant factor IX activity (< 1%). Sequencing studies revealed a G-->A transition at bp - 26 within the promoter region of the factor IX gene. This case report confirms the...
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