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[Significance of mutation analysis in patients with haemophilia A].
Hamostaseologie - 1 Feb 2003
Oldenburg J, Schröder J, Graw J, Ivaskevicius V, Brackmann H H, Schramm W, Müller C R, Seifried E, Schwaab R
Abstract excerpt
Haemophilia A represents the most frequent hereditary bleeding disorder in humans. The disease is caused by mutations within the factor VIII gene leading to decreased or absent factor VIII activities with a bleeding tendency depending on the degree of factor VIII deficiency. Nowadays, the causative mutations can be routinely detected and have substantially improved diagnostic and understanding of the...
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