Diagnosis of α+-thalassemias by determining the ratio of the two α-globin gene copies by oligonucleotide hybridization and melting curve analysis

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1711-1713

  Timmann, Christian ^a,b   Moenkemeyer, Florian ^a,b   Evans, Jennifer A ^c   Foerster, Birgit ^a,b   Tannich, Egbert ^a,b   Haase, Sylvia ^a,b   Sievertsen, Juergen ^a,b   Kohne, Elisabeth ^d   Horstmann, Rolf D ^a,b  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; GENOMIC DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELTING CURVE ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE DOSAGE; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

EID: 24144474259     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.051375     Document Type: Article

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