[9] Pregnant women with the most common heritable thrombophilias (i.e., heterozygosity for factor V Leiden [OR: 8.3; 95% CI: 5.4–12.7] or the prothrombin G20210A mutation [OR: 6.8; 95% CI ...

in which they “recommend against routine testing for Factor V Leiden and/or the prothrombin 20210G>A mutation in asymptomatic family members of patients with VTE with Factor V Leiden or ...

In addition, we could not find a specific correlation between a particular mutation and the severity of the lesion on MRI or the severity of the neurologic deficit, although there was a tendency ...

For both cohorts, the study design and conduct were approved by the Wake Forest University Institutional Review Board. Genotyping for the presence of the Leiden mutation (G1691A) in the factor V gene ...

A mutation is any detectable and heritable change in nucleotide sequence that causes a change in genotype and is transmitted to daughter cells and succeeding generations. Mutations in polyketide ...

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