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Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAITP or NAIT or NAT for short; or fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia FNAIT feto-maternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia FMAITP or FMAIT) is a disease that affects fetuses and newborns in which the platelet count is decreased (a state known as thrombocytopenia). Platelet antigens are inherited from both mother and father. FNAIT is caused by antibodies specific for platelet antigens inherited from the father but which are absent in the mother.