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Clinical and genomic heterogeneity of Diamond Blackfan anemia in the Russian Federation.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Sept 2015
Smetanina Natalia S, Mersiyanova Irina V, Kurnikova Maria A, Ovsyannikova Galina S, Hachatryan Lili A, Bobrynina Vlasta O, Maschan Michael A, Novichkova Galina A, Lipton Jeffrey M, Maschan Alexey A
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BACKGROUND: Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous ribosomopathy and inherited bone marrow failure syndrome characterized by anemia, reticulocytopenia, and decreased erythroid precursors in the bone marrow with an increased risk of malignancy and, in approximately 50%, physical abnormalities. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed clinical data from 77 patients with DBA born in...
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