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Gene mutations and three-dimensional structural analysis in 13 families with severe factor X deficiency.
British journal of haematology - 1 Jun 2002
Peyvandi Flora, Menegatti Marzia, Santagostino Elena, Akhavan Sepideh, Uprichard James, Perry David J, Perkins Stephen J, Mannucci Pier M
Abstract excerpt
Factor X (FX) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder. The phenotype and genotype of 15 Iranian patients with FX deficiency from 13 unrelated families with a high frequency of consanguinity were analysed. Five different assays identified four patients from three families with a discrepancy between low-FX coagulant activity (FX:C) and higher-FX antigen (FX:Ag) (a type II deficiency). The remaining 11...
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