Relationship between genotype and phenotype: Thalassemia intermedia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 850, Issue , 1998, Pages 325-333

  Galanello, Renzo ^a   Cao, Antonio ^a  

^a Osp Regionale per le Microcitemie   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; BETA THALASSEMIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GLOBIN GENE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; THALASSEMIA; THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA;

EID: 0031872838     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10489.x     Document Type: Article

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