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Modulation of clinical phenotype of Glanzmann's thrombasthenia by thrombogenic mutations.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 May 2009
Kannan Meganathan, Yadav Birendra Kumar, Ahmad Firdos, Biswas Arijit, Saxena Renu
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BACKGROUND: Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (GT) is an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder which is due to a defect in platelet aggregation in response to multiple physiological agonists. It has been demonstrated that the clinical phenotype of various diseases inherited in a classic Mendelian fashion can be modulated by a series of factors, inherited as well as acquired. METHODS: A total of 45 GT patients were...
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