Article
A rare inherited coagulation disorder: combined homozygous factor VII and factor X deficiency.
American journal of hematology - 1 Sept 2004
Menegatti Marzia, Karimi Mehran, Garagiola Isabella, Mannucci PierMannuccio, Peyvandi Flora
Abstract excerpt
The combined presence in the homozygous state of more than one recessively transmitted coagulation defect may rarely occur in countries with a high rate of consanguinity. In an Iranian family consisting of two parents (second cousins) and two affected siblings, initial phenotypic analysis led to a diagnosis of mild FX deficiency (10-19% FX activity, 42-54% FX:Ag), and genotyping revealed a new homozygous missense...
Topics
- Adult
- Blood Coagulation Disorders
- Factor VII Deficiency
- Factor X Deficiency
- Family Health
- Female
- Genotype
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Iran
- Male
- Mutation, Missense
