Article
Molecular characterization of Iranian patients with type 3 von Willebrand disease.
Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia - 1 Sept 2009
Shahbazi S, Mahdian R, Ala F A, Lavergne J-M, Denis C V, Christophe O D
Abstract excerpt
von Willebrand's disease (VWD) type 3 is a rare but severe autosomal-recessive inherited bleeding disorder with a prevalence higher in certain locations where consanguineous marriages are relatively frequent. The genetic defects causing recessive type 3 VWD in 10 unrelated families from Iran have been investigated and the genetic heterogeneity among these patients was evaluated. All exons and their flanking...
Topics
- Adult
- Codon, Nonsense
- Exons
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Heterogeneity
- Genetic Testing
- Genotype
- Humans
- Iran
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pedigree
- Phenotype
