A De Novo Mutation in MYH9 in a Child With Severe and Prolonged Macrothrombocytopenia.

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Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a diverse group of hereditary disorders caused by mutations in the MYH9 gene, which encodes the nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-A, an important motor protein in hemopoietic cells. Thus, the term MYH9-related disease has been proposed, but the clinicopathologic basis of MYH9 mutations has been poorly investigated. Here, we report a sporadic case of Epstein syndrome, an MYH9...

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