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High prevalence of nonsense, frame shift, and splice-site mutations in 16 patients with full-blown Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.
Blood - 15 Nov 1995
Wengler G S, Notarangelo L D, Berardelli S, Pollonni G, Mella P, Fasth A, Ugazio A G, Parolini O
Abstract excerpt
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a fully penetrant X-linked recessive disorder characterized by immunodeficiency, thrombocytopenia, and severe eczema. WAS is a life-threatening disease, with a poor quality of life and high mortality rate in childhood. The gene responsible for the disease has been localized to the proximal short arm of the X-chromosome and recently isolated through positional cloning and named...
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