These results confirm that platelets have normal volume in ANKRD26-RT (Noris et al, 2011) and substantiate the current classification of MYH9-RD, BSS and ITGA2B/ITGB3-RT as macrothrombocytopenias (Balduini et al, 2011). The gene discussed is ITGA2B; the disease is Macrothrombocytopenia.