Platelets are not all gray in GFI1B disease

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 299-299

  Stevenson, W S ^a   Morel Kopp, M C ^a   Ward, C M ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CELL MATURATION; DNA BINDING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GFI1B DISEASE; GRAY PLATELET SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; GENETICS;

GFI1B PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

GRAY PLATELET SYNDROME; HUMANS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84922726851     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cge.12424     Document Type: Letter

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