Article
PIG-A gene abnormalities in Thai patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Jan 1995
Pramoonjago P, Wanachiwanawin W, Chinprasertsuk S, Pattanapanyasat K, Takeda J, Kinoshita T
Abstract excerpt
Deficient biosynthesis of the glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol (GPI)-anchor in blood cells is implicated in the pathogenesis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). Abnormal clonal cells appear in various hematopoietic cell lineages, suggesting that PNH arises as a result of somatic mutation...
Topics
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Complementary
- Glycosylphosphatidylinositols
- Granulocytes
- Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
- Mutation
- Neutrophils
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Messenger
- Sequence Deletion
- Thailand
