Patrizia Noris, Silverio Perrotta, Roberta Bottega, Alessandro Pecci, Federica Melazzini, Elisa Civaschi, Sabina Russo, Silvana Magrin, Giuseppe Loffredo, Veronica Di Salvo, Giovanna Russo, Maddalena Casale, Daniela De Rocco, Claudio Grignani, Marco Cattaneo, Carlo Baronci, Alfredo Dragani, Veronica Albano, Momcilo Jankovic, Saverio Scianguetta, Anna Savoia, Carlo L Balduini
BACKGROUND: Bernard-Soulier syndrome is a very rare form of inherited thrombocytopenia that derives from mutations in GPIbα, GPIbβ, or GPIX and is typically inherited as a recessive disease. However, some years ago it was shown that the monoallelic c.515C>T transition in the GPIBA gene (Bolzano mutation) was responsible for macrothrombocytopenia in a few Italian patients. DESIGN AND METHODS: Over the past 10 years, we have searched for the Bolzano mutation in all subjects referred to our institutions because of an autosomal, dominant form of thrombocytopenia of unknown origin...
January 2012: Haematologica