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The gene encoding ribosomal protein S19 is mutated in Diamond-Blackfan anaemia.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 1999
Draptchinskaia N, Gustavsson P, Andersson B, Pettersson M, Willig T N, Dianzani I, Ball S, Tchernia G, Klar J, Matsson H, Tentler D, Mohandas N, Carlsson B, Dahl N
Abstract excerpt
Diamond-Blackfan anaemia (DBA) is a constitutional erythroblastopenia characterized by absent or decreased erythroid precursors. The disease, previously mapped to human chromosome 19q13, is frequently associated with a variety of malformations. To identify the gene involved in DBA, we cloned the chromosome 19q13 breakpoint in a patient with a reciprocal X;19 chromosome translocation. The breakpoint occurred in...
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