. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Intron 40 of the human von Willebrand factor (vWF) gene contains a polymorphic region with three variable-number tandem repeats (VNTRs), type (ATCT)n. In the present report, we evaluated the allelic frequencies of these three VNTRs in a population constituted by 51 Brazilian Caucasian and 25 Types 1, 2, and 3 von Willebrand disease (vWD) patients, and performed segregation analysis in eight families affected by vWD Types 1 and 2.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2016-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2016-05-13T12:44:04+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v4.0.0.0" . "v4.0.0" .