title: Study on the phylogenetic tree of human platelet glycoproteins.
abstract: Platelet glycoprotein is an important group of glycoproteins on platelets. Several types of platelet glycoproteins have been studied for their functions in the hemostasis system. A bioinformatic analysis was performed to find out how the platelet glycoproteins' genes are related to each other. A multiple sequence alignment phylogenetic tree was performed to present the family tree of the human platelet glycoproteins recorded in the genomic database, ExPASY. These derived sequences from the database were processed by ClustalW and subsequently used for preparation of the distance matrix by Phylip protdist. The final generated phylogenetic tree of human platelet glycoproteins was presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
authors.forename: Viroj
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wiwanitkit
mesh_terms: D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000378:metabolism*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D006801:Humans; D010802:Phylogeny; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins