Determining the cause of patchwork HBA1 and HBA2 genes: Recurrent gene conversion or crossing over fixation events

Haematologica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-302

  Law, Hai Yang ^a   Luo, Hong Yuan ^b   Wang, Wen ^c   Ho, Julia F V ^c   Najmabadi, Hossein ^d   Ng, Ivy S L ^a   Steinberg, Martin H ^b   Chui, David H K ^b   Chong, Samuel S ^c  

^a KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Kariminejad Najmabadi Pathology and Genetics Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

globin genes; Crossover fixation; Gene conversion; Patchwork

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CROSSING OVER; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 33645406758     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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