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Neutral evolution in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 Nov 2008
Dingli David, Luzzatto Lucio, Pacheco Jorge M
Abstract excerpt
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is an acquired hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) disorder characterized by the partial or complete deficiency of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked membrane proteins, which leads to intravascular hemolysis. A loss of function mutation in the PIG-A gene, required for GPI biosynthesis, explains how the deficiency of many membrane proteins can result from a single genetic...
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