Spectrum of β-thalassemia mutations in North Indian states: A β-thalassemia trait with two mutations in cis

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 576-578

  Chakrabarti, Partha ^a   Gupta, Ramkrishna ^a   Mishra, Ashutosh ^a   Rai, Madhukar ^a   Singh, Vijay Pratap ^a   Dash, Debabrata ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Thalassemia; Amplification refractory mutation system; E thalassemia; Frame shift mutation; Intervening sequences; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CIS ISOMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDIA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; BETA-THALASSEMIA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GLOBINS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 18844381578     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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