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Thromb Haemost 2000; 84(03): 396-400
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614034
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Prothrombin Activation Is Increased among Asymptomatic Carriers of the Prothrombin G20210A and Factor V Arg506Gln Mutations

Kenneth A. Bauer
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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Steve Humphries
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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Belinda Smillie
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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Lily Li
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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Jacqueline A. Cooper
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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Samad Barzegar
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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Robert D. Rosenberg
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
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George J. Miller
1   From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston VA Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; the Division of Cardiovascular Genetics, University College London Medical School, the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Medical College, London, UK
› Author AffiliationsSupported in part by National Institutes of Health (HL33014), the British Heart Foundation (RG95007, PG/95190 and RG93008), the Medical Research Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and DuPont Pharma (Wilmington, DE).
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Received 03 January 2000

Accepted after revision 14 April 2000

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14 December 2017 (online)

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Summary

The risk of venous thrombosis is increased in individuals who carry specific genetic abnormalities in blood coagulation proteins. Among Caucasians, the prothrombin G20210A and factor V Arg506Gln (FV R506Q) mutations are the most prevalent defects identified to date. We evaluated their influence on markers of coagulation activation among participants in the Second Northwick Park Heart Study, which recruited healthy men (aged 50–61 years) from nine general medical practices in England and Wales. They were free of clinical vascular disease and malignancy at the time of recruitment. Genotypes for the two mutations were analyzed using microplate array diagonal gel electrophoresis, and coagulation markers (factor XIIa; activation peptides of factor IX, factor X, and prothrombin; fibrinopeptide A) were measured by immunoassay. Factor VII coagulant activity and factor VIIa levels were determined by a functional clotting assay. Among 1548 men genotyped for both mutations, 28 (1.8%) and 52 (3.4%) were heterozygous for prothrombin G20210A and FV R506Q, respectively. The only coagulation marker that was significantly associated with the two mutations was prothrombin activation fragment F1+2 [mean ± SD, 0.88 ± 0.32 nmol/L in men with prothrombin G20210A (p = 0.002) and 0.89 ± 0.30 in men with FV R506Q (p = 0.0001) versus 0.72 ± 0.24 among non-carriers for either mutation]. This data provides conclusive evidence that heterozygosity for the prothrombin G20210A as well as the FV R506Q mutations in the general population leads to an increased rate of prothrombin activation in vivo.

Key words

Prothrombin G20210A - factor V-Arg506Gln - coagulation activation markers - prothrombin activation fragment F1+2
 

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