The role of heterocellular hereditary persistence of fetal haemoglobin in β0-thalassaemia intermedia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 899-906

  Chang, Yen Pei C ^a,d   Littera, Roberto ^a   Garau, Raffaela ^a   Smith, Kirby D ^c   Dover, George J ^b   Iannelli, Sergio ^a   Cacace, Enrico ^b   Contu, Licinio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PO R Binaghi   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

thalassaemia intermedia; F cell; Fetal haemoglobin; Genotype phenotype correlation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; BETA GLOBIN; GAMMA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN F;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLOBIN GENE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GLOBINS; HUMANS; ITALY; MUTATION;

EID: 0034797081     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2001.03042.x     Document Type: Article

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