RESEARCH ARTICLE Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the ST3GAL4 Gene with VWF Antigen and Factor VIII Activity Jaewoo Song1,2, Cheng Xue3, John S. Preisser4, Drake W. Cramer1, Katie L. Houck1, Guo Liu5, Aaron R. Folsom6, David Couper4, Fuli Yu3,7*, Jing-fei Dong1,8* 1 BloodWorks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America, 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, 3 Human Genome Sequencing Center, Molecular and Human Genetics Department, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, United States of America, 4 Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United a11111 States of America, 5 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 6 Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, 7 Institute of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China, 8 Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States of America *
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[email protected] (FY) OPEN ACCESS Citation: Song J, Xue C, Preisser JS, Cramer DW, Abstract Houck KL, Liu G, et al. (2016) Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the ST3GAL4 Gene VWF is extensively glycosylated with biantennary core fucosylated glycans. Most N-linked with VWF Antigen and Factor VIII Activity. PLoS ONE and O-linked glycans on VWF are sialylated. FVIII is also glycosylated, with a glycan struc- 11(9): e0160757. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0160757 ture similar to that of VWF.