1) A familial hemorrhagic diathesis has been found to be due to an antithrombin.

2) This antithrombin is not fibrinogen, antithrombin II, III, or IV, and is not similar in its characteristics to the antithrombins described in secondary hemorrhagic conditions.

3) The inheritance of this disorder is not sex-linked but is otherwise not clear. The factor may be a dominant, the expression of which is modified by unknown factors.

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