The Cretan type of non-deletional hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin [Aγ-158C→T] results from two independent gene conversion events

Human Genetics

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 629-634

  Patrinos, George P ^a,c   Kollia, Panagoula ^b   Loutradi Anagnostou, Aphrodite ^a   Loukopoulos, Dimitris ^b   Papadakis, Manoussos N ^a  

^a LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; GAMMA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN F;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GREECE; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT;

FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GENE CONVERSION; GLOBINS; GREECE; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA CAPS;

EID: 0031879058     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050753     Document Type: Article

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