| Literature DB >> 20381388 |
Elisa Fermo1, Paola Bianchi, Lucia Dora Notarangelo, Silvana Binda, Cristina Vercellati, Anna Paola Marcello, Carla Boschetti, Wilma Barcellini, Alberto Zanella.
Abstract
We report two patients with very severe congenital dyserythropoietic anemia presenting with hydrops foetalis, previously classified as "atypical" CDAs since they presented CDAII-like erythroblastic morphological features lacking other diagnostic CDAII markers. Molecular characterization of SEC23B gene, recently described as responsible of CDAII, revealed the presence of Glu109Lys/Arg701Cys and Glu109Lys/Cys66Tyr mutations, respectively. This finding leads to a re-classification of these cases and underlines phenotypic heterogeneity of CDAII, demonstrating for the first time that CDAII may be associated with hydrops foetalis and intrauterine death. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20381388 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2010.03.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Blood Cells Mol Dis ISSN: 1079-9796 Impact factor: 3.039