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Eighteen years of molecular genotyping the hemophilia inversion hotspot: from southern blot to inverse shifting-PCR.
International journal of molecular sciences - 1 Jan 2011
Rossetti Liliana C, Radic Claudia P, Abelleyro Miguel M, Larripa Irene B, De Brasi Carlos D
Abstract excerpt
The factor VIII gene (F8) intron 22 inversion (Inv22) is a paradigmatic duplicon-mediated rearrangement, found in about one half of patients with severe hemophilia A worldwide. The identification of this prevalent cause of hemophilia was delayed for nine years after the F8 characterization in 1984. The aim of this review is to present the wide diversity of practical approaches that have been developed for...
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