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Comparison of the ankyrin (AC)n microsatellites in genomic DNA and mRNA reveals absence of one ankyrin mRNA allele in 20% of patients with hereditary spherocytosis.
Blood - 1 Jun 1995
Jarolim P, Rubin H L, Brabec V, Palek J
Abstract excerpt
Combined deficiency of ankyrin and spectrin represents the most common biochemical abnormality in hereditary spherocytosis (HS). To examine whether a decrease in ankyrin mRNA represents a frequent cause of this type of HS, we took advantage of the reported (AC)n microsatellite polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of ankyrin cDNA. We first measured the number of AC repeats in genomic DNA encoding erythrocyte...
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