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Merry Christmas for Patients with Hemophilia B
10 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Hemophilia B (also known as Christmas disease) is due to deficiency of coagulation factor IX (FIX). In this issue of the Journal, Nathwani et al. report the first unequivocal evidence of successful gene therapy for hemophilia B — a major advance in this field.1 This success for hemophilia may translate into gene therapy for other blood protein deficiencies.Hemophilia is due to deficiency in a coagulation factor...
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