[For its anticoagulant action, APC causes inactivation of the procoagulant cofactors, factors Va and VIIIa, by limited proteolysis, and APC's anticoagulant activity is promoted by protein S, various lipids, high-density lipoprotein, and factor V. Hereditary heterozygous deficiency of protein C or protein S is linked to moderately increased risk for venous thrombosis, while a severe or total deficiency of either protein is linked to neonatal purpura fulminans.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE