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Amino-acid substitution in alpha-spectrin commonly coinherited with nondominant hereditary spherocytosis.
American journal of hematology - 1 Mar 1997
Tse W T, Gallagher P G, Jenkins P B, Wang Y, Benoit L, Speicher D, Winkelmann J C, Agre P, Forget B G, Marchesi S L
Abstract excerpt
Nondominant hereditary spherocytosis (ndHS) is a disorder characterized in some patients by severe hemolytic anemia and marked deficiency of erythrocyte spectrin. This report describes the identification of a variant spectrin chain, alpha-spectrin Bughill or alpha(BH), that is associated with this disorder in a number of patients. Tryptic maps of spectrin from affected individuals revealed an acidic shift in...
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