Article
Linkage disequilibrium amongst ITGA2B and ITGB3 gene variants in patients with Glanzmann thrombasthenia confirms that most disease-causing mutations are recent.
British journal of haematology - 1 Nov 2016
Pillois Xavier, Nurden Alan T
Abstract excerpt
We recently reported mutation analysis of the largest cohort of Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) patients so far examined. Sanger sequencing of coding regions, splice sites, upstream and downstream regions of the ITGA2B and ITGB3 genes identified 78 causal genetic variants (55 novel); 4 large deletions or duplications were also detected. We have now analysed the expression of non-causal gene polymorphisms in the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Cohort Studies
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Drift
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Integrin alpha2
- Integrin beta3
- Linkage Disequilibrium
