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Congenital disorders of glycosylation type Ia and IIa are associated with different primary haemostatic complications.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Aug 2001
Van Geet C, Jaeken J, Freson K, Lenaerts T, Arnout J, Vermylen J, Hoylaerts M F
Abstract excerpt
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) type I are mostly due to a deficient phosphomannomutase activity, called CDG Ia. CDG IIa (mutations in the MGAT2 gene) results from a deficient activity of the Golgi enzyme N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II. CDG Ia patients predominantly have a thrombotic tendency, whereas our CDG IIa patient has an increased bleeding tendency, despite similar coagulation factor...
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