Different impacts of alleles αLEPRA and αLELY as assessed versus a novel, virtually null allele of the SPTA1 gene in trans

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 118-122

  Delaunay, Jean ^a,b   Nouyrigat, V ^a   Proust, A ^a   Schischmanoff, P O ^a   Cynober, T ^a,b   Yvart, J ^a   Gaillard, C ^c   Danos, O ^c   Tchernia, G ^a,b  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c GÉNÉTHON   (France)

Author keywords

Allele LELY; Allele LEPRA; Exon 51 mutation; Hereditary spherocytosis; SPTA1 gene

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; FODRIN; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ALLELE ALPHA LELY; ALLELE ALPHA LEPRA; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME; EXON; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPHEROCYTOSIS;

ALLELES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SPECTRIN; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY;

EID: 4944237468     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.05160.x     Document Type: Article

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