IngentaConnect Severe coagulation factor V deficiency caused by a 4bp deletion i...

Authors: Guasch, Joan F.¹; Cannegieter, Suzanne¹; Reitsma, Pieter H.¹; van 't Veer-Korthof, Elizabeth T.²; Bertina, Rogier M.¹

Source: British Journal of Haematology, Volume 101, Number 1, April 1998 , pp. 32-39(8)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Abstract:

Factor V (FV) deficiency (parahaemophilia) is an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder with an incidence of 1:10⁶. We have studied a young girl with very mild bleeding symptoms and undetectable levels of plasma factor V antigen and activity (<0.3% and <1.6% of normal, respectively). Both parents showed plasma levels of factor V activity of about 50% of normal. Sequence analysis of the 5′- and 3′-untranslated, coding and adjacent regions of the factor V gene revealed the presence of a 4 bp deletion in exon 13. Subsequent screening of members of the family for the mutation showed that both parents were heterozygous for the mutation, that one healthy sister carried only normal alleles, and that the patient was homozygous for the mutated allele. The mutation introduced a frameshift and a novel premature stop codon in codon 1303, and would predict the synthesis of a truncated factor V molecule that lacks part of the B domain and the complete light chain. However, no factor V heavy chain could be detected in the plasma of the patient. Furthermore, factor V activity could not be detected in the patients' platelets. This is the first reported mutation in the factor V gene that predicts a type I quantitative factor V deficiency. Surprisingly, the patient, who is homozygous for the mutation, so far has only a very mild bleeding tendency.

Keywords: mutation; factor V gene; factor V deficiency; bleeding

Document Type: Original article

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00664.x

Affiliations: 1: Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research Centre, 2: Department of Paediatrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Severe coagulation factor V deficiency caused by a 4 bp deletion in the factor V gene