11 Hemophilia A Patients without Mutations in the Factor VIII Encoding Gene

N. Klopp; J. Oldenburg; C. Uen; R. Schneppenheim; J. Graw

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1613212

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 2002; 88(02): 357-360
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1613212

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11 Hemophilia A Patients without Mutations in the Factor VIII Encoding Gene

N. Klopp^*

¹GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Mammalian Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany

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J. Oldenburg

²Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immune Haematology of the DRK Blood Donor Service, Frankfurt, Germany; and Hemophilia-Center and Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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C. Uen

¹GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Mammalian Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany

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R. Schneppenheim

³University Children’s Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Hamburg, Germany

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J. Graw

¹GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Mammalian Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany

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