Study finds genes associated with bleeding disorder caused by low platelets

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found genes associated with an autoimmune bleeding disorder called chronic immune thrombocytopenia, or ITP.

Dr. Jenny Despotovic, assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor and Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, presented the research Dec. 5 at the American Society of Hematology 57th Annual Meeting.

Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center performed whole exome sequencing of DNA samples from the North American Chronic ITP Registry and the Platelet Disorders Center at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center. This work was done as a collaboration with the ITP Consortium of North America.