Prenatal diagnosis for congenital afibrinogenemia caused by a novel nonsense mutation in the FGB gene in a Palestinian family

Blood

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3492-3494

  Neerman Arbez, Marguerite ^a   Vu, Dung ^b   Abu Libdeh, Bassam ^b   Bouchardy, Isabelle ^b   Morris, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBRINOGEN; BBETA FIBRINOGEN;

AFIBRINOGENEMIA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PALESTINE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARAB; BLEEDING DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; CODON; CONSANGUINITY; FETUS DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PEDIGREE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RECESSIVE GENE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AFIBRINOGENEMIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARABS; CODON; CODON, NONSENSE; CONSANGUINITY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FIBRINOGEN; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEMORRHAGIC DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0038542879     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-10-3116     Document Type: Article

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