Familial thrombophilia : clinical and molecular analysis of Swedish families with inherited resistance to activated protein C or protein S deficiency
(1996) In Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation. Supplementum 56(226). p.19-46- Abstract
This report describes the characterization of Swedish families with inherited resistance to activated protein C (APC resistance) and/or protein S deficiency, two genetic disorders associated with functional impairment of the protein C anticoagulant pathway. The APC resistance phenotype was linked to the factor V gene locus in a kindred with independent inheritance of APC resistance and protein S deficiency. A point mutation changing Arg506 to a Gln (FV:Q506) in the factor V gene was the cause of APC resistance. In studies of 50 families with hereditary APC resistance, the FV:Q506 mutation was identified in 94% (47/50) of the families, and the thrombotic risk was found to be dependent on the factor V genotype. Moreover, 18 families with... (More)
This report describes the characterization of Swedish families with inherited resistance to activated protein C (APC resistance) and/or protein S deficiency, two genetic disorders associated with functional impairment of the protein C anticoagulant pathway. The APC resistance phenotype was linked to the factor V gene locus in a kindred with independent inheritance of APC resistance and protein S deficiency. A point mutation changing Arg506 to a Gln (FV:Q506) in the factor V gene was the cause of APC resistance. In studies of 50 families with hereditary APC resistance, the FV:Q506 mutation was identified in 94% (47/50) of the families, and the thrombotic risk was found to be dependent on the factor V genotype. Moreover, 18 families with hereditary deficiency of free protein S were investigated. Type I protein S deficiency (low free and total protein S) and type III deficiency (low free but normal total protein S) coexisted in 78% (14/18) of the families, suggesting the two types to be phenotypic variants of the same genetic disorder. Deficiency of free protein S was caused by equimolar relationship between protein S and beta-chain containing isoforms of C4BP. Though protein S deficiency was a strong risk factor for thrombosis, the FV:Q506 mutation was identified as an additional genetic risk factor in 39% of the families. Thus, familial thrombophilia is a multiple gene disorder. The thrombophilic tendency associated with APC resistance or protein S deficiency was related to increased levels of prothrombin fragment 1 + 2, reflecting increased activation of the common coagulation pathway.
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- Zöller, Bengt LU
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- 1996
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- activated protein C, blood clotting factor 5, familial disease, family, gene locus, heredity, human, phenotype, point mutation, priority journal, protein S deficiency, review, Sweden, thrombophilia
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- Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation. Supplementum
- volume
- 56
- issue
- 226
- pages
- 28 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- scopus:0030478027
- pmid:8981666
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- 0085-591X
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- English
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