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Genetic mutations and sites of autoantibody specificity in congenital and acquired TTP.

Abbreviations: TTP, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura; TSP, thrombospondin-type 1 repeats; CUB, complement c1r/c1s, sea Urchin epidermal growth factor, and Bone morphogenetic protein.