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LAD-1/variant syndrome is caused by mutations in FERMT3.
Blood - 7 May 2009
Kuijpers Taco W, van de Vijver Edith, Weterman Marian A J, de Boer Martin, Tool Anton T J, van den Berg Timo K, Moser Markus, Jakobs Marja E, Seeger Karl, Sanal Ozden, Unal Sule, Cetin Mualla, Roos Dirk, Verhoeven Arthur J, Baas Frank
Abstract excerpt
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency-1/variant (LAD1v) syndrome presents early in life and manifests by infections without pus formation in the presence of a leukocytosis combined with a Glanzmann-type bleeding disorder, resulting from a hematopoietic defect in integrin activation. In 7 consanguineous families, we previously established that this defect was not the result of defective Rap1 activation, as proposed by...
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