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Genotype and phenotype of haemophilia A in Thai patients.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Mar 2003
Yenchitsomanus P, Akkarapatumwong V, Pung-Amritt P, Intorasoot S, Thanootarakul P, Oranwiroon S, Veerakul G, Mahasandana C
Abstract excerpt
To study genotype and phenotype correlation of haemophilia A in Thai patients, molecular defects of the factor VIII (FVIII) gene were examined and their correlation with clinical phenotypes were evaluated. The molecular pathologies of FVIII in Thai patients were found to be heterogeneous. The most common mutation was FVIII intron 22 inversion accounting for about 30% of the severe cases while gene deletion was...
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