Abstract
A family is described in which three male members died in early infancy with severe thrombocytopenia and a fourth in adolescence with aplastic anaemia. One child was investigated in detail and shown to have amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia, progressing to pancytopenia as a result of bone marrow hypoplasia. His associated congenital abnormalities differed from those described in Fanconi's aplastic anaemia, his chromosomes were normal, and the fetal haemoglobin level was 48%. Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia is itself rare and the index case appears unique. It is suggested that this family has a previously undescribed X linked variety of amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia.
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