[The physiopathology of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) has been clarified since 1998, when it was shown that TTP in adults was most often associated with an acquired deficiency of von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease (ADAMTS13) due to autoantibodies, whereas TTP in children was most often associated with a hereditary autosomal recessive severe deficiency of ADAMTS13.]. 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