Article
High prevalence of a mutation in the factor V gene within the U.K. population: relationship to activated protein C resistance and familial thrombosis.
British journal of haematology - 1 Sept 1994
Beauchamp N J, Daly M E, Hampton K K, Cooper P C, Preston F E, Peake I R
Abstract excerpt
Recent findings have indicated the importance of factor V (FV) in causing resistance to activated protein C (APC) in a high proportion of patients with venous thrombosis. This prompted us to investigate whether resistance could be due to defective inactivation of FVa by APC. Consequently, we amplified a 3.2 kb fragment of the FV gene sequence encoding the heavy chain APC cleavage site. DNA analysis showed a...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Factor V
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Prevalence
- Protein C
- Thrombosis
- United Kingdom
