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Genetic diagnosis in hemophilia and von Willebrand disease.
Blood reviews - 1 Jan 2017
Swystun Laura L, James Paula D
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Phenotypic assays are first-line in terms of diagnostic testing for inherited bleeding disorders. However, since the characterization of the genes that encode coagulation factors in the 1980s, significant progress has been made in translating this knowledge for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. For the hemophilias, molecular genetic testing can be used to determine carrier status, establish a prenatal...
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