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Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria: a replacement of haematopoietic tissue?
Acta haematologica - 1 Jan 2000
Schrezenmeier H, Hildebrand A, Rojewski M, Häcker H, Heimpel H, Raghavachar A
Abstract excerpt
Acquired somatic mutations of the PIG-A gene lead to deficient expression of glycosyl-phosphatidyl-inositol-anchored proteins (GPI-AP) by haematopoietic cells and play a causative role in the pathogenesis of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH). However, PIG-A mutations do not explain how the defective PNH clone can expand. It was hypothesized that a selection process conferring a relative advantage to the...
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