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Factor 5 mutation profile in German patients with homozygous and heterozygous factor V deficiency.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Sept 2009
Delev D, Pavlova A, Heinz S, Seifried E, Oldenburg J
Abstract excerpt
Coagulation factor V (FV) plays an important role in the blood coagulation cascade as part of the prothrombinase complex. FV deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive bleeding disorder with variable phenotypic expression. Thus, our study reports 39 patients with FV deficiency. In 36 cases, we were able to identify a causative mutation. Of these, 20 patients were heterozygous for the identified mutation, nine were...
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