[Type 2B von Willebrand's disease (vWD) is associated with spontaneous binding of large von Willebrand factor (vWF) multimers to platelets in vivo, followed by clearance of both the large multimers and platelets resulting in thrombocytopenia, which may be intermittent, mild to severe, and may be exacerbated by stress such as infection or pregnancy.]. 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