Alpha thalassaemia in Indonesia: Phenotypes and molecular defects

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 531, Issue , 2003, Pages 47-56

  Setianingsih, Iswari ^a   Harahap, Alida ^a   Nainggolan, Ita M ^a  

^a EIJKMAN INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN F; HEMOGLOBIN H; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; CHROMOSOME 16; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL GENETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNIC GROUP; FETUS; FETUS HYDROPS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC SCREENING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BART; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDONESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HYDROPS;

EID: 0042886064     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0059-9_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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