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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 occurred at the multipotential hematopoietic stem cell stage. We previously cloned a gene which is responsible for PNH....
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