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An alanine-to-threonine substitution in protein 4.2 cDNA is associated with a Japanese form of hereditary hemolytic anemia (protein 4.2NIPPON).
Blood - 1 Apr 1992
Bouhassira E E, Schwartz R S, Yawata Y, Ata K, Kanzaki A, Qiu J J, Nagel R L, Rybicki A C
Abstract excerpt
Erythrocyte (RBC) protein 4.2 (P4.2)-deficiency observed in Japanese individuals results in a hemolytic anemia associated with abnormally shaped (spherocytic, ovalocytic, and elliptocytic), osmotically fragile RBCs, the clinical presentation of which resembles hereditary spherocytosis (HS). By sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, P4.2-deficient individuals contain less than 1% of the normal...
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