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Characterization of a novel autosomal dominant bleeding disorder in a large kindred from east Texas.
Blood - 15 Mar 2001
Kuang S Q, Hasham S, Phillips M D, Wolf D, Wan Y, Thiagarajan P, Milewicz D M
Abstract excerpt
A large east Texas family with autosomal dominant inheritance of a novel bleeding disorder has been identified. The disorder is characterized clinically by easy bruising, life-threatening bleeding with trauma or surgery, and menorrhagia in affected women. Laboratory studies demonstrated prolongation of the prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time in affected individuals. Paradoxically, assays of...
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