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The molecular analysis of von Willebrand disease: a guideline from the UK Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation Haemophilia Genetics Laboratory Network.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Sept 2008
Keeney S, Bowen D, Cumming A, Enayat S, Goodeve A, Hill M
Abstract excerpt
von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a common autosomally inherited bleeding disorder associated with mucosal or trauma-related bleeding in affected individuals. VWD results from a quantitative or qualitative deficiency of von Willebrand factor (VWF), a glycoprotein that is essential for primary haemostasis and that carries and protects coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) in the circulation. Through characterization of...
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