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Analysis of SERPING1 expression on hereditary angioedema patients: quantitative analysis of full-length and exon 3 splicing variants.
Immunology letters - 30 Jan 2012
de la Cruz Rocío Mena, López-Lera Alberto, López-Trascasa Margarita
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary angioedema (HAE) due to C1-inhibitor (C1-Inh) deficiency is an autosomal dominant disease caused by mutations in the SERPING1 locus. According to protein levels in plasma, two HAE phenotypes have been described: Type I, with low circulating protein levels in plasma, and Type II, where the protein is present but dysfunctional. Although more than 200 mutations have been described to date, studies on the...
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