Congenital afibrinogenemia: Mutations leading to premature termination codons in fibrinogen Aα-chain gene are not associated with the decay of the mutant mRNAs

Blood

Volumn 98, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 3685-3692

  Asselta, Rosanna ^a,b,c   Duga, Stefano ^a,b,c   Spena, Silvia ^a,b,c   Santagostino, Elena ^a,b,c   Peyvandi, Flora ^a,b,c   Piseddu, Gavino ^a,b,c   Targhetta, Roberta ^a,b,c   Malcovati, Massimo ^a,b,c   Mannucci, Pier O ^a,b,c   Tenchini, Maria Luisa ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Diagnosi e Terapia Delle Malattie Emorragiche e Trombotiche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d University of Cagliari ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; AFIBRINOGENEMIA; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; STOP CODON;

EID: 0035895061     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V98.13.3685     Document Type: Article

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