Rare and unexpected mutations among Iranian β-thalassemia patients and prenatal samples discovered by reverse-hybridization and DNA sequencing [3]

Haematologica

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1113-1114

  Najmabadi, Hossein ^a   Pourfathollah, Ali A ^a   Neishabury, Maryam ^a   Sahebjam, Farhad ^a   Krugluger, Walter ^a   Oberkanins, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

thalassemia; Iran; Mutation analysis

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALLELISM; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; BETA THALASSEMIA; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FETUS; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IRAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CODON, TERMINATOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRAN; LYSINE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036797482     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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