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Ribosomal protein S17 gene (RPS17) is mutated in Diamond-Blackfan anemia.
Human mutation - 1 Dec 2007
Cmejla Radek, Cmejlova Jana, Handrkova Helena, Petrak Jiri, Pospisilova Dagmar
Abstract excerpt
Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a congenital erythroid aplasia characterized as a normochromic macrocytic anemia with a selective deficiency in red blood cell precursors in otherwise normocellular bone marrow. In 40% of DBA patients, various physical anomalies are also present. Currently two genes are associated with the DBA phenotype--the ribosomal protein (RP) S19 mutated in 25% of DBA patients and RPS24...
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