Erythroblastic inclusions in dominantly inherited β thalassemias

Blood

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 322-328

  Ho, P Joy ^b   Wickramasinghe, Sunitha N ^b   Rees, David C ^b   Lee, Matthew J ^b   Eden, Ayed ^b   Thein, Swee Lay ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; ERYTHROBLAST; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETICULOCYTE;

EID: 0031029914     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v89.1.322     Document Type: Article

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