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A quantitative protein S deficiency associated with a novel nonsense mutation and markedly reduced levels of mutated mRNA.
Thrombosis and haemostasis - 1 Aug 1995
Yamazaki T, Hamaguchi M, Katsumi A, Kagami K, Kojima T, Takamatsu J, Saito H
Abstract excerpt
A 50-year-old Japanese man who had experienced recurrent episodes of venous thrombosis was found to have a hereditary protein S deficiency. The amount of total protein S antigen in plasma was reduced by approximately 50% in the patient and his two sons. DNA sequence analysis revealed a novel nonsense mutation, TAG for Gln 522 (CAG), in exon 14 of the protein S gene. Family studies performed by mutagenic PCR...
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