Major beta-globin gene mutations in eastern India and their associated haplotypes

Human Heredity

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 232-235

  Bandyopadhyay, Aditi ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Sanmay ^a   Chowdhury, Manju Dutta ^a   Dasgupta, Uma B ^a,b  

^a CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Amplification refractory mutation system; Eastern India; Haplotype; HbE thalassaemia; Restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CODON; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 0032782742     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022880     Document Type: Article

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