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Clinical and molecular characterisation of 21 patients affected by quantitative fibrinogen deficiency.

Abstract
Fibrinogen is a plasma glycoprotein mainly synthesised by hepatocytes and circulating as a 340-kDa hexamer consisting of two sets of three different polypeptide chains (Aα, Bβ, and γ, encoded by the FGA, FGB, and FGG gene, respectively). Congenital afibrinogenaemia and hypofibrinogenaemia are rare bleeding disorders characterised by abnormally low levels of functional and immunoreactive fibrinogen in plasma, associated with haemorrhagic manifestations of variable severity. While afibrinogenaemia is caused by mutations in the homozygous or compound heterozygous state in one of the three fibrinogen genes, hypofibrinogenaemia is generally due to heterozygous mutations, and is usually characterised by a milder phenotype. The mutational spectrum of these quantitative fibrinogen disorders includes large deletions, point mutations causing premature termination codons, and missense mutations often affecting fibrinogen assembly and/or secretion. Here we report the clinical and molecular characterisation of 13 unrelated afibrinogenaemic and eight hypofibrinogenaemic patients, leading to the identification of 17 different mutations (10 hitherto unknown). All the newly-identified missense and splicing mutations werein vitro expressed to verify their pathogenic role. Our data increase the number of mutations causing quantitative fibrinogen deficiencies by about 7 %. The high number of private mutations identified in the analysed probands indicates that the full mutational screening of the three fibrinogen genes is still required for molecular diagnosis.
AuthorsRosanna Asselta, Manuela Platè, Michela Robusto, Munira Borhany, Ilaria Guella, Giulia Soldà, Abdolreza Afrasiabi, Marzia Menegatti, Tahir Shamsi, Flora Peyvandi, Stefano Duga
JournalThrombosis and haemostasis (Thromb Haemost) Vol. 113 Issue 3 Pg. 567-76 (Mar 2015) ISSN: 2567-689X [Electronic] Germany
PMID25427968 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Fibrinogen
Topics
  • Adult
  • Afibrinogenemia (blood, diagnosis, genetics)
  • Animals
  • Blood Coagulation (genetics)
  • Blood Coagulation Tests
  • COS Cells
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Chlorocebus aethiops
  • DNA Mutational Analysis
  • Female
  • Fibrinogen (genetics, metabolism)
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • HeLa Cells
  • Heterozygote
  • Homozygote
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mutation
  • Phenotype
  • Transfection
  • Young Adult

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