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Detection of the Glanzmann's thrombasthenia mutations in Arab and Iraqi-Jewish patients by polymerase chain reaction and restriction analysis of blood or urine samples.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Oct 1991
Peretz H, Seligsohn U, Zwang E, Coller B S, Newman P J
Abstract excerpt
Severe Glanzmann's thrombasthenia is relatively frequent in Iraqi-Jews and Arabs residing in Israel. We have recently described the mutations responsible for the disease in Iraqi-Jews--an 11 base pair deletion in exon 12 of the glycoprotein IIIa gene, and in Arabs--a 13 base pair deletion at the AG acceptor splice site of exon 4 on the glycoprotein IIb gene. In this communication we show that the Iraqi-Jewish...
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