Molecular cloning of the breakpoints of the hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin type-6 (HPFH-6) deletion and sequence analysis of the novel juxtaposed region from the 3' end of the β-globin gene cluster

Human Genetics

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 441-445

  Kosteas, Theodoros ^a   Palena, Antonella ^a   Anagnou, Nicholas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN F; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FETUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0030884297     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050530     Document Type: Article

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