Article
Intron 22 inversions in the Turkish haemophilia A patients: prevalence and haplotype analysis.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 May 1999
El-Maarri O, Kavakli K, Caglayan S H
Abstract excerpt
In about half of the severe haemophilia A cases, the disease is caused by an inversion that split the F.VIII gene into two parts separated by approximately 300-400 kb. Herein, we show that in the Turkish population this inversion mutation accounts for 29% of 141 haemophilia A cases and 42% of severe cases. Most of the inversions are of the distal type (72%) whereas nine were of the proximal type (28%). Haplotype...
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