The prothrombin gene mutation increases your risk of severe blood clots. Medications, regular checkups, and healthy lifestyle habits can help reduce this risk. The prothrombin gene plays a crucial ...

Prothrombin is a protein found in the blood. It’s required for your blood to clot properly. Blood clots are solid clumps of blood made up of platelets and a network of a protein called fibrin.

We identified a novel mechanism of hereditary thrombosis associated with antithrombin resistance, with a substitution of arginine for leucine at position 596 (p.Arg596Leu) in the gene encoding ...

The one-stage method was carried out on several hundred subjects to find the limits of variation in nonhypoprothrombinemic states. As representative samples, the results on 12 normal subjects studied ...