Vitamin B12 deficiency in a 15-year old boy due to mutations in the intrinsic factor gene, GIF

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-371

  Overgaard, Ulrik M ^a   Tanner, Stephan M ^b   Birgens, Henrik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

haemolysis; hereditary cobalamin deficiency; intrinsic factor deficiency; pancytopenia; vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTRINSIC FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GIF GENE; GRANULOPOIESIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; INTRINSIC FACTOR; MALE; MUTATION; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 77954596475     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2010.08198.x     Document Type: Letter

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