Article
Family studies in an extremely large mild haemophilia A pedigree which includes 10% of Greek haemophiliacs.
British journal of haematology - 1 Jan 1995
Mandalaki T, Koumbarelis E, Gialeraki A, Apostolou A
Abstract excerpt
We illustrate the usefulness of direct mutation detection for genetic counseling by showing its application to an extremely large mild haemophilia A pedigree (91 haemophiliacs) originating from the village of Aiani in Macedonia, northern Greece. The causative mutation has already been shown to be an A to T transversion in codon 280 of the FVIII gene which replaces Asn 280 (AAC) by Ile (ATC) and which creates a...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Factor VIII
- Female
- Fertility
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Greece
- Hemophilia A
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
