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Assignment of the gene locus for severe congenital neutropenia to chromosome 1q22 in the original Kostmann family from Northern Sweden.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 16 Feb 2007
Melin M, Entesarian M, Carlsson G, Garwicz D, Klein C, Fadeel B, Nordenskjöld M, Palmblad J, Henter J I, Dahl N
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal recessive severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) or Kostmann syndrome is characterised by reduced neutrophil counts and subsequent recurrent bacterial infections. The disease was originally described in a large consanguineous pedigree from Northern Sweden. A genome-wide autozygosity scan was initiated on samples from four individuals in the original pedigree using high density single nucleotide...
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