Rare β-thalassemia mutation in a Turkish patient: FSC-36/37 (-T)

Human Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 263-267

  Tadmouri, Ghazi Omar ^a   Tüzmen, Şükrü ^a   Başak, A Nazli ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ORIGIN OF MUTATION; RARE MUTATIONS; TURKEY; THALASSEMIA

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842366684     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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