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Clinical and molecular aspects of Turkish familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis patients with perforin mutations.
Leukemia research - 1 Jun 2008
Okur Hamza, Balta Gunay, Akarsu Nurten, Oner Ahmet, Patiroglu Turkan, Bay Ali, Sayli Tulin, Unal Sule, Gurgey Aytemiz
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to elucidate the pathologic sequence changes and associated clinical phenotypes in 9 new patients showing homozygosity for perforin gene among a total of 37 (24%) Turkish FHL families studied by linkage analysis. These 9 unrelated patients (5M/4F) were coming from consanguineous families and their presentation ages of systemic symptoms were ranged from birth to 15 years. Direct...
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