@article{865b1fedb10e4f529906268754722738,
title = "Mutations in NBEAL2, encoding a BEACH protein, cause gray platelet syndrome",
abstract = "Next-generation RNA sequence analysis of platelets from an individual with autosomal recessive gray platelet syndrome (GPS, MIM139090) detected abnormal transcript reads, including intron retention, mapping to NBEAL2 (encoding neurobeachin-like 2). Genomic DNA sequencing confirmed mutations in NBEAL2 as the genetic cause of GPS. NBEAL2 encodes a protein containing a BEACH domain that is predicted to be involved in vesicular trafficking and may be critical for the development of platelet γ-granules.",
author = "Kahr, {Walter H.A.} and Jesse Hinckley and Ling Li and Hansj{\"o}rg Schwertz and Hilary Christensen and Rowley, {Jesse W.} and Pluthero, {Fred G.} and Denisa Urban and Shay Fabbro and Brie Nixon and Rick Gadzinski and Mike Storck and Kai Wang and Ryu, {Gi Yung} and Jobe, {Shawn M.} and Schutte, {Brian C.} and Jack Moseley and Loughran, {Noeleen B.} and John Parkinson and Weyrich, {Andrew S.} and {Di Paola}, Jorge",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the families that participated in this study. This work was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to J.D.P. (NIH HL084086-01), A.S.W. (NIH HL066277 and HL091283), J.W.R. (NIH T32 HL105321), B.C.S. and G.-Y.R. (NIH UL1RR024979), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to W.H.A.K. (MOP-81208), J.P. and N.B.L. (MOP-84556), and the American Heart Association to H.S. (AHA 09BG1A2250381). We thank R. Wong from the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center Molecular Biology Core at the University of Colorado–Denver for sequencing assistance (grant NIH P30DK57516), the Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Group, Dublin City University for the use of their computational facilities and D. Lim for preparing figures.",
year = "2011",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1038/ng.884",
language = "English",
volume = "43",
pages = "738--740",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
number = "8",
}