Genetic abnormalities in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

doi:10.1097/00062752-199809000-00005

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Genetic abnormalities in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

Current opinion in hematology - 1 Sept 1998

Marchuk D A

Abstract excerpt

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), or Rendu-Osler-Weber disease, is an autosomal dominant disorder of localized angiodysplasia, although it is sometimes mistakenly identified as a hemostatic disorder due to its associated characteristic bleeding. The vascular lesions that develop consis...

Topics

Activin Receptors
Animals
Antigens, CD
Endoglin
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Mutation
Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases
Receptors, Cell Surface
Telangiectasia, Hereditary Hemorrhagic
Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1

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