Regional distribution of β-thalassemia mutations in India

Human Genetics

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 109-113

  Verma, Ishwar C ^a,b   Saxena, Renu ^a   Thomas, Elizabeth ^a   Jain, Pawan K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAKISTAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; CODON; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MUTATION; PAKISTAN; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0030754149     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050475     Document Type: Article

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