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Mutations within the Piga gene in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Blood - 1 May 1994
Ware R E, Rosse W F, Howard T A
Abstract excerpt
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is an acquired clonal hematologic disorder with multiple and varied clinical manifestations. The biochemical defect in PNH resides in the incomplete enzymatic assembly of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors used for surface protein attachment. In all patients tested thus far, the defect is at the level of N-acetylglucosamine attachment to phosphatidylinositol...
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