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Assessment of clinical and laboratory presentations of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis patients with homozygous W374X mutation.
Leukemia research - 1 Aug 2010
Balta Gunay, Okur Hamza, Unal Sule, Yarali Nese, Gunes Adalet Meral, Unal Selma, Turker Meral, Guler Elif, Ertem Mehmet, Albayrak Meryem, Patiroglu Turkan, Gurgey Aytemiz
Abstract excerpt
Homozygous W374X mutation was identified in unrelated 13 patients (6M/7F) from consanguineous families, 62% of which had history of deceased sibling. Haplotype analysis provided evidence for the probable existence of a founder effect. Age at disease onset ranged from 1 day to 5.5 months (median 2...
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