Article
First report on UK database of haemophilia B mutations and pedigrees. UK Haemophilia Centres.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 May 1994
Saad S, Rowley G, Tagliavacca L, Green P M, Giannelli F
Abstract excerpt
In order to obtain complete success in the carrier and prenatal diagnoses required for genetic counselling in haemophilia B a new strategy is being implemented in the UK. This entails the construction of a national confidential database of mutations, pedigrees and haematological data. This will allow the inefficient indirect tests based on the analysis of DNA polymorphisms to be abandoned and direct detection of...
Topics
- Databases, Factual
- Female
- Hemophilia B
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Retrospective Studies
- United Kingdom
