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An interactive web database of factor H-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome mutations: insights into the structural consequences of disease-associated mutations.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 2006
Saunders Rebecca E, Goodship Timothy H J, Zipfel Peter F, Perkins Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Factor H (FH) is a central complement regulator comprised of 20 short complement repeat (SCR) domains. Nucleotide changes within this gene (CFH) have been observed in patients with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), and also membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and age-related macular degeneration. All parts of FH are affected, but many mutations are clustered in the C-terminal part of FH. Up to now, structural...
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