Factor VII deficiency: clinical manifestation of 717 subjects from Europe and Latin America with mutations in the factor 7 gene

The congenital FVII deficiency (FVIID) is a rare haemorrhagic disorder with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. Data on phenotype and the genotype from 717 subjects in Central Europe (six countries), Latin America (Costa Rica, Venezuela) and United States, enrolled in the Greifswald Registry of FVII Deficiency were analysed. We detected 131 different mutations in 73 homozygous, 145 compound heterozygous and 499 heterozygous subjects. …