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Truncated mutant B subunit for factor XIII causes its deficiency due to impaired intracellular transportation.
Blood - 1 May 2001
Koseki S, Souri M, Koga S, Yamakawa M, Shichishima T, Maruyama Y, Yanai F, Ichinose A, Shitishima T
Abstract excerpt
Two Japanese patients were newly diagnosed as having B subunit (XIIIB) deficiency of factor XIII (former type I deficiency). Both patients have a previously described one-base deletion at the boundary between intron A/exon II in the XIIIB gene, heterozygously or homozygously. A founder effect was proposed for this mutation because 3 unrelated patients with XIIIB deficiency also share 2 3'-polymorphisms. In one...
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