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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Intawat Nookaew
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-46922 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Blood 20130718 10
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease where platelets are destroyed prematurely. In the majority of children the disease resolves, but in some it becomes chronic. To investigate whether these 2 phases of the disease are molecularly similar or separate entities we performed DNA microarray analysis (GEO accession number: GSE46922) of T-cells from newly diagnosed children and children with chronic ITP. We found complete separation of the gene expression profiles between the 2 phase ...[more]