Congenital afibrinogenaemia in a newborn infant due to a novel mutation in the fibrinogen Aα gene [9]

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 282-283

  Vlietman, José J ^a   Verhage, Jan ^a   Vos, Hans L ^b   Van Wijk, Richard ^c   Remijn, Jasper A ^c   Van Solinge, Wouter W ^c   Brus, Frank ^a  

^a RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A gene; Congenital afibrinogenaemia; Mutation; Newborn infant

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AFIBRINOGENEMIA; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NEWBORN; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFIBRINOGENEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMORRHAGIC DISORDERS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MUTATION;

EID: 0036398423     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.377910.x     Document Type: Letter

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