Thromb Haemost 1995; 73(05): 876-889
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1653885
Scientific and Standardization Committee Communications
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Protein C Deficiency: A Database of Mutations, 1995 Update

On behalf of the Subcommittee on Plasma Coagulation Inhibitors of the Scientific and Standardization Committee of the ISTH
P H Reitsma
1   the hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Center, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands
,
F Bernardi
2   Dipartimento Biochimica e Biologia Moleculare, Università degli studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
,
R G Doig
3   Diagnostic Haematology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
,
S Gandrille
4   INSERM CJF 91-01, UFR des Sciences Pharma- ceutiques et Biologiques, Paris, France
,
J S Greengard
5   Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
,
H Ireland
6   Department of Haematology, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London, UK
,
M Krawczak
7   Abteilung Humangenetik, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
,
B Lind
8   Section for Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
,
G L Long
9   Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
,
S R Poort
1   the hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Center, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands
,
H Saito
10   First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Tsurumai-cho, Nagoya, Japan
,
N Sala
11   Cancer Research Institute, Hospital Duran I Reynals, Barcelona, Spain
,
I Witt
12   Biochemisches Labor, Universitäts-Kinderklinik Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
,
D N Cooper
13   Charter Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Thrombosis Research Institute, London, UK
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Publication Date:
09 July 2018 (online)

 
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