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A novel splicing mutation of the alpha-spectrin gene in the original hereditary pyropoikilocytosis kindred.
Blood - 15 Dec 2005
Costa Daniel B, Lozovatsky Larisa, Gallagher Patrick G, Forget Bernard G
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis (HPP) is a severe hemolytic anemia due to abnormalities of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane skeleton. In the original HPP kindred, there is compound heterozygosity for an allele encoding a structural variant of alpha-spectrin (L207P) and an alpha-spectrin allele associated with a defect in alpha-spectrin production. To identify the molecular defect in the production-defective...
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