Globin chain synthesis is a useful complementary tool in the differential diagnosis of thalassemias

Hemoglobin

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 333-341

  Khatami, Shohreh ^a   Dehboneh, Soghra Rouhi ^a   Sadeghi, Sedigheh ^a   Mirzazadeh, Roghieh ^a   Saeedi, Parinaz ^a   Bayat, Parastoo ^a   Najmabadi, Hossein ^b   Zeinali, Sirous ^a   Akbari, Mohammad Taghi ^c   Ardjmand, Mohammad ^a   Amirkhani, Aref ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b Kariminejad Najmabadi Pathology and Genetics Center   (Iran)

^c Akbari Laboratory of Medical Genetics   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ratio; Globin Chain Synthesis (GCS); Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A2; HEMOGLOBIN H;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCYTOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLOBINS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRAN; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 34547213380     PISSN: 03630269     EISSN: 1532432X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630260701462006     Document Type: Article

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