Understanding von Willebrand's disease from gene defects to the patients.

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von Willebrand's disease (vWD) is caused by qualitative (type 2) and quantitative (types 1 and 3) abnormalities of von Willebrand factor (vWF). vWD type 3, a severe form of the disease with nearly complete deficiency of the protein in plasma, are found to be homozygous or compound heterozygous for null mutations in the vWF gene. Null mutations in both alleles of the vWF gene completely disrupt the protein...

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