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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 biosynthesis of the GPI anchor, is somatically mutated. Analyses of Japanese, British, and American patients with PNH have...
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