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SUBMITTER: Sivapalaratnam S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6037295 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sivapalaratnam Suthesh S Westbury Sarah K SK Stephens Jonathan C JC Greene Daniel D Downes Kate K Kelly Anne M AM Lentaigne Claire C Astle William J WJ Huizinga Eric G EG Nurden Paquita P Papadia Sofia S Peerlinck Kathelijne K Penkett Christopher J CJ Perry David J DJ Roughley Catherine C Simeoni Ilenia I Stirrups Kathleen K Hart Daniel P DP Tait R Campbell RC Mumford Andrew D AD Laffan Michael A MA Freson Kathleen K Ouwehand Willem H WH Kunishima Shinji S Turro Ernest E
Blood 20161114 4
The von Willebrand receptor complex, which is composed of the glycoproteins Ibα, Ibβ, GPV, and GPIX, plays an essential role in the earliest steps in hemostasis. During the last 4 decades, it has become apparent that loss of function of any 1 of 3 of the genes encoding these glycoproteins (namely, GP1BA, GP1BB, and GP9) leads to autosomal recessive macrothrombocytopenia complicated by bleeding. A small number of variants in GP1BA have been reported to cause a milder and dominant form of macrothr ...[more]