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Mutational spectrum and phenotypes in Danish families with hereditary angioedema because of C1 inhibitor deficiency.
Allergy - 1 Jan 2011
Bygum A, Fagerberg C R, Ponard D, Monnier N, Lunardi J, Drouet C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hereditary angioedema (HAE), type I and II, is an autosomal dominant disease with deficiency of functional C1 inhibitor protein causing episodic swellings of skin, mucosa and viscera. HAE is a genetically heterogeneous disease with more than 200 different mutations in the SERPING1 gene. A genotype-phenotype relationship does not seem to exist in HAE, although the polymorphism c.-21T>C of exon 2 has...
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