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Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: new insights from murine Pig-a-deficient hematopoiesis.
Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians - 1 Mar 1997
Devetten M P, Liu J M, Ling V, Weichold F F, Yu J, Medof M E, Young N S, Dunn D E
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A large fraction of the hematopoietic cells of patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) are deficient in membrane expression of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins (GPI-APs). Current evidence suggests that this deficiency is sufficient to account for the hemolytic and thrombotic manifestations of this disease but not for its frequent association with aplastic anemia, an autoimmune...
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