Ectopic transcript analysis indicates that allelic exclusion is an important cause of type I protein C deficiency in patients with nonsense and frameshift mutations in the PROC gene

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 870-876

  Soria, José Manuel ^a   Berg, Lutz Peter ^b   Fontcuberta, Jordi ^c   Kakkar, Vijay V ^b   Estivill, Xavier ^a   Cooper, David N ^d   Sala, Núria ^a,e  

^a HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

^b THROMBOSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Sont Pau Hospital   (Spain)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON;

EID: 0029948287     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1650386     Document Type: Article

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