Hypofibrinogenemia caused by a nonsense mutation in the fibrinogen Bβ chain gene

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2356-2359

  Mimuro, J ^a   Haaaano, A ^a   Tanaka, T ^b   Madoiwa, K S ^a   Sugo, T ^a   Matsuda, M ^a   Sakata, Y ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen; Gene analysis; Hypofibrinogenemia

Indexed keywords

BBETA FIBRINOGEN; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE NHEI; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN TOTTORI II; FIBRINOGEN VARIANT; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; STOP CODON;

AGED; COAGULATION PROTEIN DISORDERS; CODON, NONSENSE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGENS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 1842546625     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1538-7836.2003.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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