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Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia, congenital, 2

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A congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia caused by a variation in the THPO gene, which encodes thrombopoietin, characterized by infantile- or early childhood-onset thrombocytopenia with markedly reduced or absent megakaryocytes, often progressing to pancytopenia, aplastic anemia, and hypocellular bone marrow, with decreased or inappropriately normal serum thrombopoietin.

Causal genes
THPO
Also known as
THPO-related congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia

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