Unusually severe heterozygous β-thalassemia: Evidence for an interacting gene affecting globin translation

Blood

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3428-3435

  Ho, P Joy ^b   Hall, Georgina W ^b   Watt, Suzanne ^b   West, Nicholas C ^b   Wimperis, Jennifer W ^b   Wood, William G ^b   Thein, Swee Lay ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; GLOBIN MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROBLAST; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GLOBIN GENE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; RETICULOCYTE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 0032211162     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v92.9.3428     Document Type: Article

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