Utility of Whole Exome Sequencing in the Early Diagnosis of Atypical Diamond-Blackfan Anemia.

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Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a rare congenital bone marrow failure syndrome, with a hallmark of erythroblastopenia and congenital anomalies. DBA demonstrates genetic heterogeneity and variable phenotypic expression. We present two cases of atypical DBA harboring de novo mutations in the RPS-19 gene with c.49 G>C and c.357-1G>T allelic variants. The two cases presented confounding critical illness demonstrated...

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