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Association of a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) in glycoprotein Ib alpha and HPA-2 alloantigens.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Nov 1994
Simsek S, Bleeker P M, van der Schoot C E, von dem Borne A E
Abstract excerpt
The human platelet alloantigen HPA-2(Koa/Kob) system is involved in two clinical syndromes, neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia and platelet transfusion refractoriness. We have previously described that the human platelet alloantigens HPA-2a(Kob) and HPA-2b(Koa), are caused by a Thr145Met amino acid polymorphism in the N-terminal globular domain of the human platelet glycoprotein (GP) Ib alpha. In the present...
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