1. Rare variants in $\textit{GP1BB}$ are responsible for autosomal dominant macrothrombocytopenia
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Sivapalaratnam, S, Westbury, SK, Stephens, JC, Greene, D, Downes, K, Kelly, AM, Lentaigne, C, Astle, WJ, Huizinga, EG, Nurden, P, Papadia, S, Peerlinck, K, Penkett, CJ, Perry, DJ, Roughley, C, Simeoni, I, Stirrups, K, Hart, DP, Tait, RC, Mumford, AD, NIHR BioResource, Laffan, MA, Freson, K, Ouwehand, WH, Kunishima, S, Turro, E, Stephens, Jonathan [0000-0003-2020-9330], Downes, Kate [0000-0003-0366-1579], Astle, William [0000-0001-8866-6672], Papadia, Sofia [0000-0002-9222-3812], Simeoni, Ilenia [0000-0001-5039-2194], Johnson, Kathleen [0000-0002-6823-3252], Ouwehand, Willem [0000-0002-7744-1790], Turro Bassols, Ernest [0000-0002-1820-6563], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Blood Platelets ,Male ,Genome, Human ,Platelet Count ,Gene Expression ,High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing ,Hemorrhage ,Thrombocytopenia ,Pedigree ,Platelet Glycoprotein GPIb-IX Complex ,Case-Control Studies ,Mutation ,Humans ,Female ,Alleles ,Genes, Dominant - Abstract
The von Willebrand receptor complex, which is composed of the glycoproteins Ibα, Ibβ, GPV, and GPIX, plays an essential role in the earliest steps in hemostasis. During the last 4 decades, it has become apparent that loss of function of any 1 of 3 of the genes encoding these glycoproteins (namely, $\textit{GP1BBA}$, $\textit{GP1BB}$, and $\textit{GP9}$) leads to autosomal recessive macrothrombocytopenia complicated by bleeding. A small number of variants in $\textit{GP1BA}$ have been reported to cause a milder and dominant form of macrothrombocytopenia, but only 2 tentative reports exist of such a variant in $\textit{GP1BB}$ By analyzing data from a collection of more than 1000 genome-sequenced patients with a rare bleeding and/or platelet disorder, we have identified a significant association between rare monoallelic variants in $\textit{GP1BB}$ and macrothrombocytopenia. To strengthen our findings, we sought further cases in 2 additional collections in the United Kingdom and Japan. Across 18 families exhibiting phenotypes consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance of macrothrombocytopenia, we report on 27 affected cases carrying 1 of 9 rare variants in $\textit{GP1BB}$.
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- 2017