A homozygous duplication of the <I>FGG</i> exon 8-intron 8 junction causes congenital afibrinogenemia. Lessons learned from the study of a large consanguineous Turkish family.

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Congenital afibrinogenemia is the most severe congenital fibrinogen disorder, characterized by undetectable fibrinogen in circulation. Causative mutations can be divided into two main classes: null mutations with no protein production at all and missense mutations producing abnormal protein chains that are retained inside the cell. The vast majority of cases are due to single base pair mutations or small...

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