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Primary familial polycythemia: a frameshift mutation in the erythropoietin receptor gene and increased sensitivity of erythroid progenitors to erythropoietin
1 Jul 1995
Abstract excerpt
Primary familial and congenital polycythemia (PFCP) is characterized by erythrocytosis with normal arterial PO2, blood P50, and serum erythropoietin (EPO) levels. In two PFCP families EPO receptor (EPOR) polymorphisms cosegregated with PFCP. A heterozygous insertion of G at EPOR nucleotide 5975 was identified in genomic DNA from polycythemic members of family no. 2. 5974insG shifts the reading frame at codon 430,...
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