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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-12
pubmed:abstractText
A large east Texas family with autosomal dominant inheritance of a novel bleeding disorder has been identified. The disorder is characterized clinically by easy bruising, life-threatening bleeding with trauma or surgery, and menorrhagia in affected women. Laboratory studies demonstrated prolongation of the prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time in affected individuals. Paradoxically, assays of known coagulation factors are all within normal limits. To determine the molecular basis of this disease, a candidate gene linkage analysis in this kindred was done. Initially it was hypothesized that the cause of the disease in this family could be an antithrombin III (AT3) mutation that resulted in a constitutively active AT3 in the absence of heparin binding. Linkage studies using DNA from the family and an intragenic polymorphic marker within the AT3 gene showed that the disease mapped to this locus. The coding region and intron/exon junctions of AT3 were sequenced using the proband's DNA, but this analysis failed to identify a mutation. Additional family members were recruited for the study, and 16 polymorphic markers around the AT3 gene were analyzed. Using 2 recombinants, the critical interval for the defective gene was narrowed to approximately 1.5 Mb, centromeric to AT3. The factor V (FV) gene was mapped into the disease interval and sequenced; there were no mutations found. Elucidation of the genetic defect causing the bleeding disorder in this family may reveal a novel protein involved in the coagulation cascade.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-4971
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1549-54
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Antithrombin III, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Blood Coagulation Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Blood Coagulation Tests, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Factor V, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Family Health, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Genes, Dominant, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Genetic Markers, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Hemorrhage, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:11238089-Texas
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Characterization of a novel autosomal dominant bleeding disorder in a large kindred from east Texas.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't