Screening of Iranian thalassemic families for the most common deletions of the β-globin gene cluster

Hemoglobin

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 463-469

  Esteghamat, Fatemehsadat ^a,c   Imanian, Hashem ^a   Azarkeivan, Azita ^b   Pourfarzad, Farzin ^a   Almadani, Navid ^a   Najmabadi, Hossein ^a,c  

^a Kariminejad Najmabadi Pathology and Genetics Center   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION ORGANIZATION   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Globin deletions; Thalassemia (thal); Hereditary persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HPFH); Iran

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DELTA GLOBIN; GAMMA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN F;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DELTA THALASSEMIA; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INFORMED CONSENT; IRAN; ITALY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NEGRO; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; THALASSEMIA; THALASSEMIA GAMMA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 36248962094     PISSN: 03630269     EISSN: 1532432X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630260701641286     Document Type: Article

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