Asymptomatic and mild β-thalassemia in homozygotes and compound heterozygotes for the IVS2+IG>A mutation: Role of the β-globin gene haplotype

Haematologica

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1099-1105

  Ragusa, Angela ^a,b   Amata, Silvestra ^a   Lombardo, Turi ^b   Castiglia, Lucia ^a   Maier Redelsperger, Micheline ^c   Labie, Dominique ^d   Bernini, Luigi ^e  

^a OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^d GDPM ^*  (France)

^e Ospedale Vittorio Emanuele ^*

Author keywords

globin gene cluster polymorphisms; thalassemia mutations; Fetal hemoglobin; Thalassemia intermedia

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; HEMOGLOBIN F; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THALASSEMIA INTERMEDIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; FEMALE; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GLOBINS; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0242362229     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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