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Race, ethnicity, F8 variants, and inhibitor risk: analysis of the "My Life Our Future" hemophilia A database.
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH - 1 Apr 2023
Ahmed Anwar E, Pratt Kathleen P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested Black and Hispanic hemophilia A (HA) patients in the United States suffer higher incidences of neutralizing anti-FVIII antibodies (inhibitors) than their White counterparts. The possible influence of nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (ns-SNPs) in the F8 gene sequence has been proposed as a possible race-associated contributing factor. Some earlier studies...
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