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GATA-1 Defects in Diamond-Blackfan Anemia: Phenotypic Characterization Points to a Specific Subset of Disease.
Genes - 28 Feb 2022
van Dooijeweert Birgit, Kia Sima Kheradmand, Dahl Niklas, Fenneteau Odile, Leguit Roos, Nieuwenhuis Edward, van Solinge Wouter, van Wijk Richard, Da Costa Lydie, Bartels Marije
Abstract excerpt
Diamond−Blackfan anemia (DBA) is one of the inherited bone marrow failure syndromes marked by erythroid hypoplasia. Underlying variants in ribosomal protein (RP) genes account for 80% of cases, thereby classifying DBA as a ribosomopathy. In addition to RP genes, extremely rare variants in non-RP genes, including GATA1, the master transcription factor in erythropoiesis, have been reported in recent years in...
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