Article
Somatic mutations of PIG-A in Thai patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Blood - 1 Sept 1995
Pramoonjago P, Wanachiwanawin W, Chinprasertsak S, Pattanapanayasat K, Takeda J, Kinoshita T
Abstract excerpt
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a hematopoietic stem cell disorder characterized by clonal blood cells that are deficient in the surface expression of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins. In the affected cells, the X-chromosomal gene PIG-A, which participates in bios...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Exons
- Female
- Frameshift Mutation
- Glycosylphosphatidylinositols
- Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal
- Humans
- Male
- Membrane Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Messenger
- Sequence Deletion
- Thailand
- X Chromosome
