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HAEMATOLOGICA-THE HEMATOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 94, Issue 5, Pages 663-669Publisher
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DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2008.002246
Keywords
glycoprotein IIb/IIIa; megakaryocytopoiesis; outside-in signaling; thrombocytopenia
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- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia [2007.0130.020]
- CLB
- Italian Ministry of Health (Italy-USA Program Rare Diseases')
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Background Defects of integrin alpha(IIb)beta(3) are typical of Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, an inherited autosomal recessive bleeding disorder characterized by the failure of platelets to aggregate in response to all physiological agonists, but with no abnormalities in the number or size of platelets. Although large heterogeneity has been described for Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, no family has so far been described as having an autosomal dominant form of this disease. Design and Methods We describe two Italian families with moderate thrombocytopenia with large platelets, defective platelet function and moderate/severe mucocutaneous bleeding, transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait and associated with a novel integrin beta(3)-gene (ITGB3) mutation. Results The characteristics Of Our families are moderate macrothrombocytopenia and defective platelet function associated with a mild reduction of surface alpha(IIb)beta(3), impaired platelet aggregation to physiological agonists but not to ristocetin, normal clot retraction, reduced fibrinogen binding and expression of activated alpha(IIb)beta(3) upon stimulation, normal platelet adhesion to immobilized fibrinogen but reduced platelet spreading and tyrosine phosphorylation, indicating defective alpha(IIb)beta(3)-mediated outside-in signaling. Molecular analysis revealed tion, a novel mutation of ITCB3 that determines an in-frame deletion producing the loss of amino acids 647-686 of the beta TD ectodomain of integrin beta(3). Haplotype analysis indicated that the two families inherited the mutation from a common ancestral chromosome. Conclusions This novel autosomal dominant macrothrombocytopenia associated with platelet dysfunction raises interesting questions about the role of integrin beta(3), and its beta TD domain, in platelet formation and function.
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